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Recycle-IT! | About Us

Formed in 1995, Recycle IT! is a social enterprise providing training, paid work experience and real jobs for homeless and other long term unemployed people.

As the largest UK - wide not-for-profit IT recyclers we provide a professional redundant IT equipment data-wiping and disposal service for major corporates, local authorities and small businesses.

Our largest growth market is in exports, where we export exclusively through our partners Computer Aid International, supplying schools and third sector organisations in developing countries with low cost refurbished IT equipment. www.computer-aid.org

Our employment strategy is underpinned by our unequal opportunities policy, which means that we only take on people who have experienced long-term unemployment. They are generally referred to us through a recognised training agency and are supported through work placement into permanent jobs.

What is a Social Enterprise?
A social enterprise is a not-for-profit business that has social as well as economic aims.

Recycle-IT! | Computer Aid International

From 2006 Recycle-IT has exported exclusively through our partners Compuer Aid International the worlds largest non-profit supplier of computers to developing countries. In the UK over 70,000 PCs have been donated to Computer Aid International in just 6 years, enabling over 5,000 organisations in the developing world to benifit.The majority of these have gone to schools and community organisations in sub-Saharan Africa. They have also shipped thousands to Latin America and the South Asian sub-continent.

Computer Aid International PCs are now being used in thousands of schools benefiting many hundreds of thousands of students. And it's not just schools, their PCs are also being used to enhance the capacity of not-for-profit organisations. Organisations whose work collectively encompasses a huge range of areas central to the development process including health, human rights, HIV/Aids, environment, too name a few.

Computer Aid International aims to increase the number of UK organisations donating their used IT equipment for re-use overseas and identify and work with those organisations in recipient countries able to derive maximum value from refurbished computers it also aims to provide training and work experience in computer repair to people from socially excluded communities in their workshops in the UK.

Recycle IT! loading container to Swaziland for Computer Aid International in November 2006. Click on images to enlarge.

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