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IF YOU RUN A BUSINESS IN SOUTHAMPTON, THE TIP IS NOT AN OPTION
This catches people out constantly, so it is worth being blunt about.
Southampton keeps trade waste out of its household site with a 1.75 metre height barrier in place Monday to Friday, which the council says is there to stop businesses using commercial vehicles to dispose of business waste, and directs businesses to its separate chargeable commercial waste service instead. Check with Southampton 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. Southampton City Council requires an appointment before you visit, and requires a permit — with a £20 admin fee — for any van, pick-up or trailer over 1.8 metres. It refuses anything over 3.5 tonnes and any trailer longer than 3 metres. 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 Southampton City site. Here is where they are.
Southampton Household Waste Recycling Centre
Main siteCity Depot and Recycling Park, First Avenue, Millbrook, Southampton SO15 0LJ
Seven days a week. 9am to 6pm April to September, 9am to 4pm October to February, 9am to 5pm in March. Closed 12.30pm to 1pm daily
Netley Household Waste Recycling Centre
Grange Road, Netley SO31 5FF
Seven days a week, same seasonal hours. Closed 1pm to 1.30pm daily. Appointment required
They will take it. But you will need a permit — with a £20 admin fee — for any van, pick-up or trailer over 1.8 metres, 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 SOUTHAMPTON
SO14 through SO19 across the city centre, Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne and Woolston, and out through SO30, SO31, SO40 and SO45 towards Hedge End, Netley, Totton and the Waterside.
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.