What we do

It's a sad fact but most IT is worthless after a few short years and disposing of it safely has now become a real problem.

When you handitback, we'll collect and recycle every part of your computer. We'll even send you a certificate to prove that any data left on the hard drive has been confidentially destroyed for ever! They'll be no chance of identity theft because we'll literally shred your hard drive before we recycle it.

Your data destroyed - permanently

There's loads in the media about how easy is it to steal someone's identity. Just think about how much personal information you've got stored on your computer. Each time you enter and save a small piece of personal information into a computer, it remains in the hard drive. When you save a password or send an e-mail, that information remains……no matter how many times you clean the cookies and free up some memory.

Guard against Identity theft

Identity theft is Britain's fastest growing crime, estimated to cost the nation £1.7 billion each year. Most victims of identity theft are cautious consumers who happen to be targeted because of one little mistake. Disposing of your computer the wrong way could be the one little mistake that allows someone to gain access to your personal information.

A small price to pay for peace of mind

Handitback to us…..it's a small price to pay for piece of mind and the greenest way to recycle your computer.

CRTs can contain up to 8 pounds of lead with even a small monitor containing at least 4 pounds. It’s an easy calculation to see that at least a billion pounds of lead are heading for our land fill sites and water supplies unless we fully reprocess and recycle. HandITback ensures that during reprocessing the lead is recovered and the phosphor, barium and other toxic trace elements are vacuumed from the glass & recycled to obtain the 70% recycling target set by the current WEEE directive

Other dangers exist such as the residual high voltages that are stored in a CRT and which can be extremely harmful to health . These can remain for long periods of time even when disconnected from the mains. Another present danger is the high vacuum within CRTs, which if damaged can implode with sufficient force to send glass shrapnel outwards at potentially fatal velocities. Whilst early TV receivers had safety glass in front of their CRTs for protection, computer monitors have exposed faceplates with tension bands around the widest part of the glass envelope, to keep the faceplate's glass under compression, to enhance resistance to impact. The tension in this band is of the order of a ton or more.