Secure and sustainable tech re-use service with Tech-Takeback

In collaboration with Tech-Takeback, a not-for-profit organisation providing secure and sustainable solutions for unwanted tech, SUEZ offers a Tech-Takeback service, designed to help businesses in the south-east of England to manage their unwanted electronic and data devices like phones and laptops in secure and responsible way that supports their environmental ambition and goals, while generating social value in the local community.

No business wants to be left behind, and speed of technological advancement, required tech upgrades and everchanging customer needs, mean that many businesses accumulate a significant number of old laptops, personal computers, smartphones, and tablets, in other words your “old IT equipment pile” is growing faster than ever before. Sounds familiar?

When these devices are no longer used or needed, they pose several challenges, including data security risks and environmental concerns.

Our Tech-Takeback service offers a comprehensive solution for mitigating cyber-security and environmental risks, providing you and your business with a simple, secure, sustainable, and socially responsible way to reuse your unwanted electronics. By reusing your unwanted tech, rather than disposing it, you create social value and empower disadvantaged members of your local community. Tech-Takeback is impactful and easily measured social value delivery, and SUEZ can help you get things started.

Contact us today and see how you and your organisation can make a difference.

As part of our Tech-Takeback service you receive detailed reports on the environmental impact of your contributions, including greenhouse gas emissions avoided and the volume of material diverted from waste.

Thanks to our social value impact reporting you get to track social value generated through your Tech-Takeback service, including the monetary value of the social impact created.

Simple, secure, sustainable and… socially responsible

• Data protection: Our service ensures that all data is securely erased from your devices to UK Government standards, protecting your business from data breaches and cybercrime.
• Legal compliance: We help you comply with GDPR and the Data Protection Act, ensuring that your data handling practices meet statutory obligations.

• Digital inclusion: Donated devices support projects delivered to eliminate digital exclusion and improve digital literacy for vulnerable groups, including low-income individuals, the unemployed, the elderly, school leavers, and ex-offenders.
• Community support: Your contributions help bridge the digital divide, providing essential technology to those who need it most.

• Simple booking system: All you need to do is to gather your unwanted tech, fill in a call back form or call our team to arrange a suitable time and day for your collection.
• Convenient collection service: Our service runs independent of other scheduled collection services you may have with SUEZ. A dedicated collection vehicle picks up you unwanted tech at your premises.

• Waste prevention: By reusing devices that would otherwise be disposed of as waste electronic electrical equipment (WEEE), we help you reduce electronic waste.
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions: Extending the life of data devices reduces the need for extracting and processing natural resources, thereby lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

1. Convenient collection: Simple to arrange and secure collection in a dedicated SUEZ vehicle.
2. Device processing and data erasure: All data stored on viable tech is erased to UK Government standards. Data devices that cannot be erased are securely destroyed to ensure data protection.
3. Device repair and refurbishment: Viable devices are repaired and refurbished to give them a second life.
4. Re-use and redistribution: Refurbished devices will either be redistributed via local charities as part of SUEZ Tech‑Takeback’s digital inclusion package or sold to fund this vital work. Our digital inclusion package includes free refurbished laptops or PCs, with data internet access and digital skills training if required.
5. Compliance and impact reporting: We provide ICO-compliant certificates of data erasure and/or destruction for each data device we collect from you. We can also report on the positive environmental impact your donations have achieved, and the social value they have generated.

Explore the benefits that our Tech-Takeback service can generate for your business learn more about our services and how we can help your business achieve its CSR and ESG goals.

• Reach your CSR and ESG goals: Demonstrate your commitment to corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability.
• Ensure legal compliance: Meet your legal obligations under GDPR and the Data Protection Act and avoid fines.
• Protect your reputation: Securely dispose of data devices, protecting your business and customers from potential data breaches and cybercrime.
• Create positive impact: Contribute to social value creation by supporting digital inclusion and literacy projects.

Data security: Protecting sensitive data is paramount. Our secure data erasure and destruction services mitigate the risk of data breaches, fraud, and identity theft.

Cyber-attacks have cost UK businesses £44bn in the last five years.

Howden Group Holdings, 2024

Environmental responsibility: Electronic waste is a growing concern. By extending the life of tech and IT devices we help reduce the environmental impact associated with the disposal and manufacture of new products.

It takes 500 KG of raw materials to create each new 2KG laptop

Social responsibility: Digital exclusion is a significant issue. By donating refurbished devices, businesses can make a tangible difference in their communities, supporting those who are most in need.

“Digital exclusion can lead to poorer health outcomes, reduced life expectancy, increased social isolation and limited access to jobs and education”

The Good Things Foundation: The Digital Divide

Contact us today and see how you and your organisation can make a difference.