About
An overlook of Chaps IT Recycling from our humble beginnings to where we are today
Our Story
From IT consultancy to IT recycling
Read our story and understand how we support your business or organisation
Chaps IT Solutions - Founded 2009
I Starting in the IT consultancy sector tailoring solutions for small, medium and large organisations. This ranged from server installations, cloud migrations & backup solutions. During the installation of new equipment, we discovered that the organisations we were assisting had no plans for their outdated and no longer necessary IT assets.
These assets would usually sit loosely in a cupboard, store room or server room gathering dust, whilst still holding all the company’s valuable data, from emails, and customer and staff information, to business-critical data.
Often organisations will overlook their legal obligations regarding GDPR, data protection, and environmental impacts, it’s crucial to recognise that these are indeed legal obligations. Failure to comply with these can result in substantial fines and even imprisonment.
Most items which leave a company will end up in landfill contributing to the ongoing environmental issues which the UK are battling on a daily basis and are only getting worse. There are potentially serious consequences for you and your company if you do not comply to environmental agency legislation.
Dominic Chappell – Director
Chaps IT Recycling - Founded in 2019
After years in the consultancy industry, we decided to expand by providing completely transparent and audited solution all organisations across the UK
Since our launch in 2019 we have grown to a team of fully vetted DBS-checked staff, this allows us to provide our services to all organisations in every sector. We have multiple large vehicles allowing us to tailor a solution and minimise the number of carbon emissions which smaller vehicles and multiple trips would emit.
We have worked with businesses of all sizes from 2 person startups to organisations with 1000s of staff and sites nationwide. We keep all our client’s information confidential as our secure data destruction solutions will be tailored to you and your organisations policies & procedures.
Our facility is based in Sheffield however our solutions are offered nationwide.
We are a growing company with vast knowledge in IT, with IT engineers who are both Microsoft & Apple trained ensuring your IT assets will be processed with complete competency & in the most environmentally friendly way.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We offer our services nationwide around the UK, if you have a small number of items for the collection we can add you to our accumulation collection list where we can pick up from multiple sites on the same trip to reduce collection charges
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Our services are tailored for businesses and organisations, however, we realise these services may also be appealing to the general public. We have created a page advising of the process required if you wish to recycle items with us as a member of the general public.
We offer our mail-in and drop off solutions only to members of the general public. Please click here for more info. -
We have recently moved to a new business model where we offer industry leading rebates for assets which hold value in the form of “Offset Credits“
These credits can be used to offset the small surcharges incurred with collection and disposal of IT assets which hold no re-sale value or incurr disposal fees for responsible recycling.
Once costs are offset these credits can be withdrawn as revenue to your organisation, left as credit for further collections or used on our online store. -
No. We do all the hard work. We will arrive with the correct vehicle and tools for the collection. For larger items, 2 engineers will be dispatched (plotters data cabinets etc ). We can also collect palatalised IT equipment if required.
Large items such as data cabinets, Large MFP printers must be taken to the ground floor for easy loading where a lift is not available. -
Surcharges of our solutions are dependent on the volume or classification of assets which you wish to recycle.
Assets which carry a disposal fee for responsible recycling can be offset by assets which are suitable for re-use.
This method allows us to ensure that organisations recycling good re-use assets receive the rebates they deserve for their redundant IT & costs are covered for IT assets which require responsible recycling.
We provide full information on our asset classification and an estimate of any surcharges prior to collection, including offset credit values.
More information on chargeable items can be found on our Items we recycle Page