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RECYCLING LIVERPOOL
Secure IT asset disposal and computer donation for businesses and homes in Liverpool.
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IF YOU RUN A BUSINESS IN LIVERPOOL, THE TIP IS NOT AN OPTION
This catches people out constantly, so it is worth being blunt about.
“Trade, Commercial and Industrial waste is not permitted.”
— Veolia Merseyside & Halton, for Liverpool City Council
It does not matter that the laptops came from a small office, or that you would be taking them in your own car.
Even if it were allowed, the practicalities rule it out. Veolia Merseyside & Halton, for Liverpool City Council requires an appointment for any van, hired or owned, and for trailers between 2m and 3m - limited to one visit per household per week and twelve a year, and requires . It refuses anything above the height barriers fitted at the entrances and exits. There is no version of a business IT clear-out that fits comfortably through that door.
Businesses have a separate duty of care for waste electricals under the WEEE Regulations, and you are required to be able to show where the equipment went. That is what we give you: a documented collection, certified data destruction, and a waste transfer record.
Anyone moving your waste commercially has to be a registered waste carrier. We are — registration CBDU607333, checkable on the Environment Agency public register, and listed on our certifications page.
BOOK A BUSINESS COLLECTIONAND IF YOU ARE CLEARING OUT AT HOME, HERE IS THE HONEST COMPARISON
You can take a computer to a Veolia Merseyside & Halton, for Liverpool City site. Here is where they are.
Otterspool
Main siteJericho Lane, Liverpool, L17 5AR
Summer (1 Apr-30 Sep) 8am-8pm, Winter (1 Oct-31 Mar) 8am-5pm, daily
They will take it. But you will need a car, and a free hour in opening hours — and the machine is processed for its materials. Nobody uses it again.
We collect from your door for nothing, wipe the data to NIST 800-88 standard, and if the machine still has life in it we refurbish it and pass it on. If it is genuinely dead, we recycle it responsibly — and tell you that is what happened.
THE COUNCIL RECYCLES THE COMPUTER.
WE TRY TO KEEP IT A COMPUTER.
WHERE WE COLLECT IN LIVERPOOL
Across Liverpool and Merseyside - the city centre, Aigburth, Allerton, Wavertree, Bootle, Birkenhead and the Wirral.
We collect nationwide by courier, or send you a prepaid postage label if you would rather drop it off — there is no fixed local round to wait for, so book whenever suits you. Labels and QR codes are issued between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Outside the area? We collect across the UK — book a collection anywhere.