STRICT rules and regulations mean businesses need to work with a specialist service like PC Supplies to solve electronic waste problems.
Specialists at the Northampton-based business can offer a wide variety of services in electrical recycling, data destruction and secure shredding. Each meets the rules set out by WEEE (waste, electrical and electronic equipment), which governs the waste and recycling industry.
This type of waste, which is essentially any electrical device that uses a battery or mains power supply, currently accounts for about 1.7 million tonnes across the UK each year. Items include redundant office equipment from printers to photocopiers, household appliances like vacuum cleaners and microwaves, toys, medical devices, power tools, vending machines, consumer electronics like MP3 players and white goods from washing machines to dishwashers.
Some items, like computers, need additional attention. PC Supplies is one of the specialist firms able to offer the secure recycling of laptops which involves the hard drive being repeatedly drilled to destroy any data. Other components are then refurbished and reused, or else recycled safely and in compliance with legislation.
“The recycling operation is a growing side of the business and the correct and secure disposal of electronic waste needs to be undertaken by those with the expertise,” said Paul Evans, who set up PC Supplies on Northampton’s Moulton Park more than 19 years ago.
All staff are security vetted and can collect from across Northamptonshire to deliver to the secure processing warehouse. The bespoke service means each client will be given a complete document pack which will include information about the equipment that has been collected and notes on waste transfer and hazardous waste.
Alongside the specialist service businesses or individuals can drop off ink and toner cartridges for recycling or cardboard to be fed in to the company’s on-site baler which makes quick work of crushing the piles before it is sent off to be recycled.
The extensive showroom carries a wealth of goods from web cams and tablets to monitors, cables, wireless networking, white goods and accessories, e-cigarette kits to a top-of-the-range laptop.
PC Supplies is at 51 Tenter Road, Moulton Park Industrial Estate, Northampton, NN3 6AX, telephone 01604 642182 or visit www.pcsuppliesrecycling.co.uk or to order products – www.pcsuppliesuk.com