FAQs

Yes. This is the highest standard of licencing available to facilities carrying out WEEE recycling and is issued by the Environment Agency.

Some old electronics contain materials that are hazardous such as mercury and lead, so they need to be recycled carefully and responsibly.

Along with the environmental impact of throwing away your e-waste in a commercial bin, improper disposal leaves any residing data on that asset vulnerable to data breaching. By disposing of your items with an accredited ITAD, you eliminate both the environmental and data breach risks.

Depending on the age, quality, and quantity of the items you want to recycle, S2S Group customers can receive a rebate for items that may otherwise be gathering dust. You can also choose to refurbish your old tech and have them returned to you so that they can be reused within your organisation.

S2S Group accepts all kinds of electronic waste devices including equipment that may have thermal heating, cooling, or other types of components.

S2S Group accepts larger batteries including lead-acid and lithium batteries but if it’s smaller household batteries you have from smaller electronic devices, you can dispose of these at your local recycling centre.

A factory reset will remove most data from your devices, but studies have shown that data can still be retrieved from devices such as mobile phones that have simply had a factory reset. For more information, read S2S Group's article on why a factory reset isn’t enough on its News page.

Yes. S2S Group can track all assets from collection and then at every stage of the processes at its secure ITAD facility if required. S2S Group customers can view where their assets are using its Trakk-IT online portal.

Yes. Although we adhere to the highest regulation when handling, tracking and transporting data to our facilities, some of our customers may want their items to be destroyed on site. We can accommodate any on-site shredding needs with the use of our portable shredders.

Yes, S2S Group can destroy physical data such as documentation and patient medical records as well as digital data.

Data can be sanitised in a number of ways depending on the media type and the customer requirements. Data overwriting or erasure should be considered as this allows full re-use and S2S Group is Blancco Gold Partners meaning both a cost effective, certified and environmentally friendly solution can be offered. Alternatively, S2S Group is also able to offer solutions for degaussing, shredding and incineration to meet the highest CPNI standards depending on the media types. S2S Group can also offer options for on or off-site Data Sanitisation.

Yes, S2S Group can recycle and refurbish a wide range of mobile phones. S2S Group has specialist technicians dedicated to this area of the business so you can recycle your phones and purchase a bundle of refurbished mobile phones if required as a cost-effective solution for your organisation.

Yes, there’s no need to buy brand new devices. S2S Group's refurb and redeploy scheme enables S2S Group to repair your devices, erase all data and then return them straight back to you.

Yes, S2S Group has a range of refurbished mobile phones that are available for its customers to buy. The availability of what we have on offer depends upon the number of devices we have refurbished at that time. Devices are graded and valued by S2S Group's experts by tracking industry-standard prices for each device and its condition.

Yes, S2S Group guarantees to erase 100% of the data on your mobile phones. To do this, S2S Group uses the industry-approved data erasure software, Blancco, which ensures full erasure and complete data security.

S2S Group use touchless SanoChem specialist equipment, which is non-corrosive, eco-friendly, and kills 99.9% of bacteria on any surface. To clean items during refurbishing, S2S Group use a range of electronic safe static-free products to keep devices clean and undamaged during the service process.

Yes. If you need to sanitise your IT assets, S2S Group can come to your premises using its portable non-toxic fogging machine. The solution kills 99.9% of bacteria and provides protection from viral infections such as flu virus, c-diff, and e-coli. If you require a full clean of your premises, S2S Group can come to you, as long as you’re in the UK.

Any IT devices that your staff might use such as laptops, monitors, keyboards, and phones. S2S Group's processes are eco-friendly and are non-corrosive, so they are safe to use on any devices.

If you have a number of staff working from home, S2S Group can help arrange, sanitise and redeploy working from home bundles to the homes of your staff. This gives you peace of mind that there’s no cross-contamination and your staff has all of the tools they need to carry out their work from home. If you need to retrieve working from home bundles for whatever reason, S2S Group can collect, sanitise and send them back to you.

S2S Group operates nationwide and can collect from anywhere in the UK. S2S Group tries to group its collections up in certain areas too to minimise the impact on the environment and reduce costs to its customers.

S2S Group's usual process is to send a member of its team to collect the devices from your premises. However, if you hold a waste carriers’ licence, you can bring your items directly to S2S Group in some cases. Speak to S2S Group's team for more details of how you can do this.

Depending on how many items need collecting, and what S2S Group has already booked in the diary, S2S Group can normally arrange a collection in 1-2 weeks.

Yes, S2S Group is fully registered to carry waste. Its drivers are also security-cleared so you can be safe in the knowledge that any data on your device is secure.

Trakk-IT is S2S Group's award-winning, bespoke IT Asset tracking customer portal, created specifically by S2S Group for its clients. The system records all aspects of the products and the process and allows S2S Group clients to see exactly where their tracked assets are and provides a real-time report for you to view anywhere.

S2S Group is fully accredited and has robust processes in place to control and record every aspect of handling your data with an audit trail.

All S2S Group staff are security cleared; this is an ongoing vetting process.

S2S Group's facility has full CCTV coverage both internally and externally, the site is monitored 24 x 7 x 365 by an external security company.

S2S Group's site is enclosed with security fencing around its perimeter, secure gated areas that only authorised personnel can access and access control for all doors within the facility to control the movements of personnel within the site. Only staff with approved access can get into certain areas of S2S Group's site.

S2S Group is approved to destroy data to the Top Secret Level with the option of witness destruction on-site. All data erasure or destruction is fully certified, and you will receive documentation in line with GDPR and ADISA.

This depends on what service/s your business requires, see the below table for details on what to expect:

S2S Group offers the full end to end solution for your business using its own in-house security cleared personnel.

On occasions when S2S Group is extremely busy, there is a list of approved partners for secure transport, this is always agreed upon by S2S Group customers prior to collection.

Some hazardous products may need additional specialist processing and S2S Group have a list of approved partners for those product types.

S2S Group's goal is to produce zero waste that goes into landfill. S2S Group does this by stripping old devices so that individual components can be recycled, and as many assets as possible can be refurbished and remarketed thus diverting as much waste as possible from being sent to landfill.