IT Circular Services

Our goal is to retrieve one device for each one we sell.

See our Sustainability Report for additional information.

• 895,000 gadgets were found in 2024.
• 3.5 million new gadgets were sold in 2024.

Creating economic and environmental value through lifecycle management

We assist our clients in appreciating the worth of technology that is nearing the end of its original intended usage. We handle equipment recovery and redeployment, remarketing, and IT recycling to reduce environmental demand and impact, and we do this all around the world. This feature lowers the rate of equipment turnover and the ensuing environmental effect while enabling organizations to recoup capital from their technology purchases.

Secure data collection, processing, and sanitization serve as the foundation for services, which also include asset identification, auditing, and industry-leading reporting as standard. We provide our services in a sustainable, safe manner while adhering to all applicable laws and industry best practices. Comprehensive asset-level reporting offers complete tracking and insight.

Recovery

To reduce a device’s environmental impact, it should be used to its fullest potential for as long as it is available. With over 2 million items recovered annually, Computacenter assists clients in getting the most out of their used equipment. We gather gadgets from all around the world, package them safely, and deliver them to a Circular Services Center for testing, condition evaluation, and recorded data sanitization. After that, we get them ready for recycling, It asset remarketing, or redeployment.

Redeployment

prolong life

• The best method to lessen the impact on the environment is to reuse devices.
• Items are cleaned, rearranged, and re-deployed to our clients.
• The production and shipment of a device account for more than 70% of its carbon impact.
• Reusing gadgets reduces water and carbon emissions and costs less than purchasing new ones.

Remarketing

Increase the value

• Device surpluses are retrieved and evaluated for potential reuse.
• Rehoming gadgets increases their useful life.
• Customers can realize residual value and guarantee device reuse with our buyback services.
• Recovered value can be donated to charities or used to finance new purchases that support the goals of a sustainability strategy.

Recycling

Recycle responsibly.

• Working parts of devices that are no longer functional or outdated are retrieved and recycled.
• The goal is to minimize the environmental impact of mining new resources by recovering as much useful raw material as possible and reusing it in the supply chain.
• Hardware is processed in compliance with established best practices and all applicable laws.
• Complete visibility into material recovery data and results is provided by asset-level reporting

Our top-notch facilities in Braintree, UK; Gustavsburg, Germany; and Buffalo Grove, US, which are backed by global partnerships and logistics, serve as the foundation for these. These enable us to deliver services in the areas of workplace, data center, networking, and security at scale.

Full-service offerings

Safe gathering | Complete data erasure | Asset monitoring

Workplace | Networking | Security | Data Center

Sanitization of data

At our Circular Services Centers and partner locations, we provide a variety of data sanitization options, ranging from on-site drive destruction to Blancco software wiping. In accordance with particular client needs, we are able to satisfy a variety of national and international standards. Among the standards that are followed are IEEE 2883-2022, HMG Infosec Standard 5, BSI-2011-VS, and NIST 800-88.

Reporting

Clear data provenance reporting is essential for both regulatory compliance and achieving sustainability goals. Customers of Computacenter regularly get financial and environmental reports that provide an overview of all service and asset processing activities. They draw attention to carbon reduction, which is accomplished by:

• Redeployment and remarketing can help save buying new equipment, while recycling can help recover reused raw materials from outdated technology.

Our Centers for Circular Services

Devices are safely transported, evaluated, and then handled according to their age and condition within our cutting-edge Circular Services Centers, which were constructed especially to oversee the responsible recovery and recycling of IT equipment. In order to give customers peace of mind about their assets and the chance to lessen their environmental impact, we provide our Circular Services capabilities at strategically placed secure locations that guarantee device and lifecycle management is always accessible.