Stone is the largest privately owned IT-hardware manufacturer in the UK and the only one with ownership of its own in-house recycling department.
Over the last 18 months we have invested heavily in our Recycling plant and have recently completed a £2 Million move to a brand new state-of-the-art site, where particular attention has been paid to our ever-increasing need for recycling capacity.
Take advantage of our FREE recycling service, complete the online collection request or contact our recycling team to find out more.
Alternatively, please look through the following sections intended to answer many of your prospective questions:What is the WEEE Directive? Do you generate IT WEEE? An Obligation to the Environment Stone is the Premier Sponsor of IT Schools Africa Nothing goes to Landfill We Collect and Recycle All Brands of Equipment Stone Group uniquely operate an in-house Authorised Treatment Facility For Qualifying Equipment there is No Charge Rest assured, we use secure Data Erasure products on all Hard Drives We offer a full Asset Management service Help us maintain this as a Free Service Stone Group – Your Best Practice IT Recycling Partners Contact Us Recycling Collection Request Form
What is the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive)
Do you generate IT WEEE? Environment Agency .
An Obligation to the Environment
Unlike many companies operating in this arena with a scrap metal background we are able to identify domestic, European and Global market niches that maximise the reuse of what within our markets may be considered redundant equipment.
Stone is delighted to be the Premier Sponsor of IT Schools Africa, a UK charity which supplies and supports a variety of fantastically-deserving projects across the African continent putting recovered IT in front of children that would otherwise never see any.
Nothing goes to Landfill
This guarantees none of your organisation’s redundant equipment will ever end up in a landfill site.
We Collect and Recycle All Brands of Equipment
Stone will collect and process all brands of equipment and offers customers a true “one stop shop” for all of their recycling needs. This includes obligated and non-obligated product.
Stone uniquely operate an in-house Authorised Treatment Facility
Our state-of-the-art Granite One Hundred site adjacent to Junction 13, M6 Stafford has been purpose-built paying particular attention to our recycling facility.
A considerable capital investment has been made to establish this facility in order that we may comply with all current and proposed legislation and offer customers a true “cradle to the grave” service that ensures compliant treatment of redundant equipment that we may have manufactured, supplied and serviced.
For those of you interested in seeing this facility for yourselves, tours are always available by prior arrangement either through your account manager or by contacting our recycling team directly.
We are unaware of any other IT manufacturer operating a similar facility in the UK.
For Qualifying Equipment there is No Charge
Stone offers a comprehensive service in all aspects of the management of your waste stream, including;-
• Efficient Waste Collection bookings
• Free Collection from your sites
• Secure transport to our premises
• Free Treatment and Processing through our Recycling department
• All Environment Agency compliance documentation
Rest assured, we use secure Data Erasure products on all Hard Drives
Whilst developing our bespoke recycling offering, there were three issues we considered top priority above all others:
1. Information Assurance.
2. Information Assurance.
3. Information Assurance.
We hope you get the message!
As a measure of our commitment, all new PCs and laptops supplied by Stone are now pre-installed with Blancco, the world’s most accredited data erasure software and approved in the UK by CESG (www.cesg.gov.uk ), the national technical authority for information assurance.
By now we’re all familiar with the horror stories of hard drives bought on eBay containing thousands of people’s banking or medical records, or even military secrets.
At Stone we take the security of potentially sensitive data extremely seriously, and by default all incoming hard drives are data wiped to HMG Information Assurance Standard Number 5.
All incoming data-bearing products are prioritised for data erasure, and our internal asset tracking database records every single drive erased.
Where a drive is unsuitable for secure data erasure, for whatever reason, it is physically destroyed in-house.
We offer a full Asset Management reporting service
Help us maintain this as a Free Service
Refurbishment of suitable equipment and placement into secondary markets affords us some opportunity to offset this overhead, and if this can be done effectively enough we can continue to maintain our service, reliably and responsibly collecting and processing your WEEE, without needing to charge.
Unfortunately much of the equipment we see returned has either been handled or stored poorly or has been cannibalised (hard drives, memory and power supplies appear to be favourite targets). This renders product uneconomical for refurbishment and consequently uneconomical for free collection and processing.
Where possible please endeavour to return equipment that is intact, working and handled accordingly and in turn we will endeavour to maintain the best WEEE-compliant service in the industry without ever needing to charge for it.
Stone–Your Best Practice IT Recycling Partner
Contact Us Recycling Customer Service Department neil.taylor@stonegroup.co.uk emma.jones@stonegroup.co.uk Recycling Supervisor scott.gardiner@stonegroup.co.uk
Group Recycling Manager andy.howell@stonegroup.co.uk
Recycling Collection Request Form click here , complete and submit the form, and we’ll be in touch to confirm a collection date!