Ucan Recycling Ltd
Bradford, Brookfields Farm, Brookfields Rd, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Specialising in IT recycling and re-use, this not for profit organisation was set up by in 2010 with the social aim to not only strive for a 100% re-use rate but more importantly to create jobs for the local long term unemployed. See our coverage on regional news programme Look North.

We offer a free IT collection service to businesses and organisations including schools, universities and councils to clear out their redundant IT and to keep it out of the landfill. We also offer full asset management and secure data disposal service.

We are closely monitored and licensed by the Environment Agency to ensure that we abide by best practice and guarantee secure disposal of all data to ensure company and customer/patient details remain confidential.

Since the business was formed 6 years ago as a start-up one-man band, we now employ 11 permanent members of staff. Our ethos from the start was as to try and create jobs wherever possible within the local community We wanted to help the long term unemployed get back into work. Our business is dependent on the volume of IT we collect and it follows that the more we take the more jobs we can create.