Remploy e-cycle
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Remploy e-cycle is a United Kingdom
not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the data safe, ethical refurbishment, recycling and disposal of end-of-life IT and telecommunications equipment.
The Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (MAR) company was set up in 2001 to help accommodate the European Union
's WEEE Directive. Once cleansed of all pre-existing data - using Blancco
software which has been approved for Government data cleansing use and exceeds US Federal Government standards – end-of-life IT equipment is redeployed, remarketed, donated, recycled or otherwise disposed of via approved third parties and in line with government and EU legislation.
Originally based in Barking, Essex, the company now has three further sites in Porth, South Wales; Heywood, Greater Manchester and Preston, Lancashire.
Part of Remploy
– the UK’s leading provider of specialist employment services for disabled people – e-cycle works with a range of organisations and clients, employing more than 230 people, 95 per cent of whom are disabled.
Since 2001, Remploy e-cycle has overseen the donation of some 30,000 data safe PCs to African countries through the Digital Pipeline
programme.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the data safe, ethical refurbishment, recycling and disposal of end-of-life IT and telecommunications equipment.
The Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (MAR) company was set up in 2001 to help accommodate the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
's WEEE Directive. Once cleansed of all pre-existing data - using Blancco
Blancco
Blancco Ltd. is an international data security company that specializes in data erasure and computer reuse management solutions for corporations, governments and computer remarketing companies worldwide....
software which has been approved for Government data cleansing use and exceeds US Federal Government standards – end-of-life IT equipment is redeployed, remarketed, donated, recycled or otherwise disposed of via approved third parties and in line with government and EU legislation.
Originally based in Barking, Essex, the company now has three further sites in Porth, South Wales; Heywood, Greater Manchester and Preston, Lancashire.
Part of Remploy
Remploy
Remploy Ltd is a government-owned company in the United Kingdom which provides employment and employment placement services for disabled people. It was established in 1945 under the terms of the 1944 Disabled Persons Act, and opened its first factory in Bridgend, Wales, in 1946...
– the UK’s leading provider of specialist employment services for disabled people – e-cycle works with a range of organisations and clients, employing more than 230 people, 95 per cent of whom are disabled.
Since 2001, Remploy e-cycle has overseen the donation of some 30,000 data safe PCs to African countries through the Digital Pipeline
Digital Pipeline
Digital Pipeline is a United Kingdom registered charity which provides access to information and communications technology in developing countries throughout Africa and other parts of the world....
programme.