Clearing an office? That’s where most of our weight comes from.
One IT refresh moves more material than a month of individual donations. If you have a store cupboard of retired laptops, we will come and take them, wipe every drive to a named standard, and send you the paperwork that proves it.
It’s the same form individuals use — put your company in the organisation field and choose a count of 10 or more to unlock pickup.
The pickup
We collect from 10 items up, on weekdays, with at least two days’ notice. Tell us roughly what you have — it doesn’t need to be an exact inventory — and we’ll confirm a slot within two working days.
We’re a student-led project, not a haulage firm. If your clear-out runs to pallets rather than trolleys, say so on the form and we’ll be straight with you about whether we can handle it or whether you want a commercial ITAD contractor instead.
The data
Every device with storage is separated at intake and logged. Drives are sanitised to the NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 “Purge” standard, or physically destroyed if they can’t be wiped. Nothing leaves our workspace with data on it.
Business donors get a written record listing each device and its sanitisation method. That’s the document to hand your auditor.
Sign out of accounts and release any MDM enrolment before we collect. A device still locked to your management profile is scrap to the person who would otherwise have received it.
The bit for your sustainability lead
Within three weeks of collection we tell you what happened to your devices, split three ways: refurbished and placed with a person, stripped for parts that keep other machines alive, or sent to our certified recycler for material recovery. Weights in pounds, counts by outcome.
We publish our totals rather than only reporting them privately, so the figures in your report are the same ones anyone can check on our impact page. We don’t quote a carbon saving, because we can’t yet cite a methodology for one — and a made-up number is worse than no number in a document your auditor reads.
Two things to know up front
- We are not a charity you can write off
- We are not yet a registered charity, so donations are not tax-deductible. If your finance team needs a deductible receipt, we’re not the right home for this equipment and we’d rather tell you now than after the van has gone.
- We say no to things we can't handle
- No CRT monitors or televisions, no microwaves or large appliances, no smoke detectors, and nothing with a swollen or damaged battery. Turning up to a pallet of CRTs helps nobody.