Demand Grows From UK Business for Electronic Equipment Recycling

Award-winning Electronic equipment reuse and recycling company Maxitech.biz has moved premises due to the increasing demand for its services from clients across the UK.

(PRWEB) November 12, 2004 -- Award-winning Electronic equipment reuse and recycling company Maxitech.biz has moved premises due to the increasing demand for its services from clients across the UK.

Maxitech has moved from Islington to larger premises in Haringey as businesses in the metropolitan area of London gear up to the demands of the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive (WEEE).

Maxitech.biz provides a solution to the legal, financial, environmental and social issues of disposing end-of-life electronic equipment. British businesses are now required to reuse and recycle their redundant electrical equipment rather than dump it in landfill. The cost of logistics of disposal has been the subject of much debate and concern in recent months.

In a pilot programme over the past year, Maxitech.biz found that a typical organisation can recover 5% of the initial cost of redundant IT equipment while meeting the requirements of WEEE. And one firm in three can actually generate a positive return from their recycling programme, delivering an unexpected boost to hard-pressed IT budgets.

Maxitech.biz was set up with the support of London Remade and is now a self sustaining social enterprise providing re-use and recycling service of such equipment and passing it on, at low cost, to charities, start-up businesses and other groups that can benefit from this environmentally responsible scheme.

This attractive option has already been taken up by a number of UK local authorities and several blue chip organizations. To date, Maxitech.biz, provides unemployed people training and work-experience leading to formal qualifications, and employment. By 2007 it is projected that expansion will have created 200 training opportunities leading to jobs in IT.

Peter Paduh, Managing Director of Maxitech.biz said, "We offer UK businesses the chance to maximize their return on re-usable redundant electronic equipment, whilst benefiting the local community and our client's corporate social responsibility profiles. We ensure that all electronic equipment recycling conforms to agreed standards and is performed by authorized specialists. Organisations need to have a socially, environmentally and economically sound IT disposal strategy in order to comply with the new EU WEEE Regulations on electronics disposal and minimize the costs of compliance. Maxitech.biz has a policy of ensuring that everything we process is dealt with in an ethical and environmental manner: no harmful components are sent to landfill, and no harmful waste is sent overseas for dumping."

Barbara Roche, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green visited Maxitech and said, "I very much welcome Maxitech to Hornsey and Wood Green and the Chocolate Factory and am delighted they have chosen to re-locate in the constituency."

Councillor Quincy Prescott of Hornsey, Haringey said, "I welcome Maxitech to Haringey and we are pleased that they chose us. With thriving business there should be more job opportunities that our local residents can tap into. This simple model is already taking effect. Recycling is, rightly, a topical issue and Maxitech are leaders in their field. Their operation therefore benefits the borough, its residents and in terms of dealing with often unwanted, but often reusable computers the world. I personally wish them every success."

Maxitech.biz will collect old electrical equipment from business premises and ensure all data is removed using tools that meet the Government Defense Department's standard for wiping hard-drives clean. Further information about responsible recycling and the WEEE Directive can be found at www.Maxitech.biz.

About Maxitech

Maxitech.biz is a multi-award-winning, socially and environmentally focused company dedicated to reusing and recycling redundant IT and electronic equipment. Based in London, the company can arrange for the nationwide collection of IT and electronic equipment at low cost. Maxitech's preference is to reuse equipment received, thus prolonging its lifespan, minimising waste and benefiting charities and community groups who receive low-cost or free IT equipment. Maxitech provides more than 100 training opportunities each year for refugees and long-term unemployed people through its Edge Employer Award winning programme, to help them get into full-time employment. For further information visit www.maxitech.biz.

###