We have today the 15th January 2008 had confirmation from the Basal Action Network who are an American non profit organisation dedicated to stopping the flow of Hazardous waste from the developing countries to the third world countries like Africa and Asia that they are supporting our efforts in the UK for recycling of electrical equipment by allowing us to use their photos on our website.

We are constantly hearing of stories of how equipment that UK, American or EU companies thought had been disposed of by a reputable company, only to find that they have turned up in a market in Nigeria or on a toxic ewaste dump in china or another third world country. We only heard of a story today where a college in the UK used a company to recycle their computers after an upgrade only to find that they had been sold onto another school via ebay without even having the hard drives wiped of all their date stored on them.

We aim to help inform businesses of the dangers of disposing of their computers especially if they are using a company who will collect the equipment for free.
We feel that it is much better to send any non working equipment for recycling in the UK at one of our partners WEEE recycling plants where they are physically destroyed by shredding and then the precious metals which in a third world country would be smelted out over an open fire but here in the UK are extracted using non toxic methods for re-use as raw materials in producing new products.

We welcome the support and approval from Basel Action Network and would hope that any one looking for more information on how to recycle correctly and unsure that your date is safe from access by any one else after you have given it to a company for them to dispose of it for you that you visit the basel action network or visit this document "computer recycling the wrong way" on the perils of getting it wrong.