So a PC (or similar piece of equipment) is no longer required by a team. What journey does it take?

• The owner states that the asset is no longer required. A request is made to have it removed and an auditable trail is initiated.
• The asset is collected and taken to our IT store and placed in a secure and lockable cage.
• When five cages are full (we have 9 in total) teams across the Met Office are informed that the equipment is about to be disposed of.
• Teams can assess the asset and if interested they can apply to have the PC reused or redeployed. It will then be removed from the cage.
• If no other teams are interested then the hard drives are securely shredded at Exeter HQ.
• At this point our disposal contractor (Pluss working with Sims) is notified.
• Pluss and Sims recycling solutions give more information about our disposal contractor.
• Each and every asset can be traced through each stage of the contractors processing plant.
• If assets can be resold; 75% of the resale value will be returned to the Met Office.
• In FY 2010/11 it was estimated that disposal of redundant IT cost us £60,000. We hope that in FY 2011/12 we may make a small profit.
• All remaining assets are recycled with roughly 98% of each recycled at the local processing plant. The remainder is sold onto another contractor who can recycle it.
• We are proud of our association with Pluss (working with SIMS) and Global 100 shows Sims ranked 11th in the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world 2012.