A clearance that pays you, not the other way round.

Where the value actually is

Finance tends to write a retired estate down to zero, and disposal then gets treated as a cost line. That is usually wrong by a wide margin. A three-generation-old rack is not scrap — its memory, CPUs and drives have an active secondary market, and enterprise storage in particular holds value far longer than most refresh cycles assume.

The gap matters most when you're clearing a room rather than a shelf. At that scale the difference between a skip and a buyback is frequently the difference between a decommission that costs money and one that funds part of the next deployment.

How a job runs

1. Scope. Send a rack elevation, asset register or even a photo set. We come back with an indicative number, usually within one working day.
2. Survey. For anything sizeable we walk the room with your facilities team — access, lift and loading constraints, floor tiles, cage locks, out-of-hours windows.
3. Plan. An agreed sequence and date, so power-down order and any live dependencies are your call rather than a surprise on the day.
4. De-rack. Manifested and labelled as it comes out, cage to pallet, so the paperwork matches the pallet before anything leaves.
5. Wipe. Data-bearing media sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Purge and certified, serial by serial.
6. Settle. Inspection against the manifest, then payment by bank transfer.

What we take

Servers, enterprise storage, switches, cabinets, PDUs, rails and the residue that always turns up behind them. It's easier to tell us what's in the room than to itemise it — mixed lots are the normal case, not the exception, and we'd rather value the whole thing in one pass.

Cabling, mounting hardware and genuinely dead kit get taken away and recycled alongside the equipment we're buying, so you're not left tidying up after the collection. That end of it is where our Environment Agency waste carrier registration (CBDU607333) actually applies.

Coverage

Free insured collection across the UK and Ireland. In the Netherlands, France and Germany we buy the working hardware as a commercial purchase and agree the freight per consignment — see where we buy for how that works.

Paperwork your auditor will accept

• Collection manifest, reconciled on arrival and returned to you
• Certificate of erasure, itemised by serial number
• Waste transfer documentation for anything recycled rather than resold
• A settlement statement showing what each line made