Ultratec provide an Environmental Friendly Recycling service that complies with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 legislations.

These services can be tailored to customer’s individual needs, sorting equipment to ensure the appropriate disposal method, ensuring, if necessary, all data is erased. All data is destroyed to the standards set by the Security Equipment Assessment Panel (SEAP). Any equipment that cannot be resold or reused is recycled to the standards set by the WEEE directive.

This service is already used by many of our existing customers. Our customers using this service benefit from the following:

Under the Directive for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) plans are in place to reduce the current amount of waste that is created from unwanted IT equipment -

The latest figures for this kind of waste annually in the UK is estimated to be in excess of:

Landfill UK 272 Million Tones
Re-used 17 Million Tones
Recycled 332
In total 670 Million Tones*

http://www.it-environment.org/index.html
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/index.htm

* Source: EA National Waste Production Survey 1998

We at ultratec are devoted to helping reduce these figures, and all of our scrap material is disposed of ecologically, and if possible re-used.

Our Environmental Policy is available to read here : [click here]