Old laptops, desktop PCs, Chromebooks and tablets collected free from your workplace, with every drive wiped to government standards or shredded, and a certificate listing each device by serial number.
Everything included, at no cost.
Every collection is handled in line with UK GDPR and the WEEE Regulations. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO registration ZB436456) and hold an upper tier waste carrier licence with the Environment Agency (CBDU444714).
And it is entirely free: no collection charge, no minimum quantity and no fees for data destruction or certificates. Our costs are covered by responsibly recycling the equipment we collect.
A retired laptop or PC can still hold emails, client files, saved passwords and personal data. Under UK GDPR that data remains your responsibility until it is destroyed — deleting files or resetting the device is not the same as secure erasure.
Computers also count as waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), so they cannot go in general waste. When you hand them over, the Duty of Care means you need a waste transfer note from a licensed waste carrier. We provide both the destruction certificate and the transfer note as standard.
Every hard drive and SSD we collect is wiped using certified methods meeting NSA/CSS 130-2, DoD 5220.22-M and HMG IS5 standards. Any drive that cannot be safely wiped is physically shredded. The data is not recoverable afterwards.
You receive a single Certificate of Data Destruction listing every device by serial number — one clean document for your ICO, audit or Ofsted file. Read more about our secure data destruction service.
Laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, desktops, servers, monitors, printers, interactive whiteboards, projectors, networking equipment, cables and peripherals. If you are unsure about something, just ask.
Clearing a whole server room or office? See IT decommissioning. Need general electrical waste removed too? See WEEE collection.
Simple for you — we do the heavy lifting.
Tell us roughly what you have and where it is. Book online or call 0191 468 3257.
You get a text with an ETA. On arrival we provide an itemised audit and a Duty of Care waste transfer note.
Every data-carrying device is wiped or shredded. You receive one certificate listing them all.
Everything is recycled to WEEE standards. That recovered value keeps the service free.
We recycle laptops and computers for businesses and law firms, schools and universities, NHS and healthcare organisations and IT providers and MSPs. Each gets the same certified process, with paperwork that suits their sector.
Schools disposing of pupil devices may find our guide to school IT disposal under UK GDPR useful.
We are a local North East company based at Benton Square Industrial Estate in Newcastle, collecting from Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland, Middlesbrough and Teesside.
Book online via our free collection form, call 0191 468 3257 or email Enquiries@Techwastenortheast.co.uk.
Yes. There is no minimum quantity. One device or several hundred — if it is IT equipment and you are in the North East, we will come to you at no cost.
No. Every data-carrying device we collect is wiped to NSA/CSS 130-2, DoD 5220.22-M and HMG IS5 standards, or physically shredded, and listed by serial number on your Certificate of Data Destruction.
Yes. No collection fee, no charge for data destruction and no charge for certificates. The service is paid for by responsibly recycling the equipment.
We take them too, along with desktops, servers, printers, interactive whiteboards, projectors, networking equipment, cables and peripherals.
The whole of the North East, including Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland, Middlesbrough and Teesside.
Book a free collection anywhere in the North East — data destroyed, paperwork sorted, nothing to pay.
