Computer Recycling & IT Disposal in Reading and Berkshire

Reading’s business parks run refresh cycles, not clear-outs: laptop fleets replaced on schedule, comms rooms consolidated into the cloud, storage arrays reaching end of support. What you need from disposal is what you’d specify for any supplier: recognised standards, serialised evidence and a chain of custody your auditor can follow.

Every asset is logged in our ITAD portal by make, model, serial number, asset tag and drive serial. Your Asset Audit reconciles device by device against your CMDB or asset register, so closing the loop on a refresh takes minutes rather than a spreadsheet hunt.

Erasure is carried out to HMG Infosec Standard No. 5 or NIST 800-88 at the level your policy requires: Clear for standard reuse, Purge where the data or the device demands it. Failed drives, and drives your policy says must never leave intact, are shredded instead. The method is recorded per device on your certificate, in line with NCSC guidance on secure sanitisation.

We are used to working through supplier onboarding: NDAs, security questionnaires, insurance and certification evidence, and named-crew requests for secure sites. Send your requirements with the booking and we’ll work through them before collection.

Laptop recycling in Reading is one of our most common requests: scheduled fleet refreshes, leavers’ devices and hybrid-working returns. Every laptop is logged by serial number, its data destroyed to a recognised standard and its battery recycled through its own certified stream.

Newer laptops can be worth something. Working equipment under two years old, or up to four years old in larger volumes, may qualify for a rebate. Send us the kit list and we’ll confirm before collection. See our laptop recycling service.

Every data-bearing device is processed to HMG Infosec Standard No. 5, the UK Government data erasure standard, or NIST 800-88, matched to your data destruction policy. Where destruction is required, drives are physically shredded in line with BS EN 15713: hard drives to 6–8mm, SSDs to 2mm and LTO tapes to 10mm.

Your InfoSec team can witness destruction on site at your Reading premises where your policy requires it. See our data destruction and hard drive shredding services, and our confidential waste shredding service for paper records.

Cloud migration leaves comms rooms full of racks, blade chassis, storage arrays, switches and UPS systems. We de-rack, disconnect and remove the lot, label and log every drive by serial number, and destroy or erase it to your policy. Out-of-hours windows can be arranged so systems run until the last moment.

Drives are logged before equipment leaves the room, so your certificate matches what was physically removed. Working enterprise kit within the rebate window may qualify for a rebate. See our server recycling service.

Not everything in an office move is IT. Cabling, AV equipment, office and kitchen electricals and phones are all WEEE, and they can go on the same collection. Hazardous items, such as CRT screens and UPS batteries, travel under the correct consignment paperwork, which we prepare for you. See our WEEE recycling and battery recycling services.

Collected equipment travels directly to our Environment Agency licensed facility in Nottingham, which is alarmed, access-controlled and CCTV-monitored around the clock by an external security company. Every item is checked against your collection record and logged in our ITAD asset portal, where your team can follow it.

Data-bearing devices are erased or destroyed to the agreed standard first. Equipment with resale value is assessed for a rebate, and everything else is separated into material streams and recycled. Nothing from a Reading computer disposal goes to landfill.

Business IT is electrical waste, so it must be recycled under the WEEE Regulations and handed only to a licensed carrier with a Waste Transfer Note under your Duty of Care. If devices hold personal data, UK GDPR applies too: your organisation stays responsible for that data until it is destroyed, and you need evidence that it was.

Before you hand anything over, check your carrier on the Environment Agency public register. Ours is CBDU457511. See our licences.