Fulfilling your
Corporate and Social Responsibilities
With increasing pressure on
organisations to fulfil their corporate and social responsibilities
(CSRs), Function provides a range of services that makes it easy
for businesses of any size to dispose of their redundant office
furniture and equipment without damaging the
environment.
Furniture
disposal
More than half a million tonnes of unwanted
office furniture is sent to landfill every year. London is one of
the worst cities in the world for recycling. The Mayor of London
has set targets for the city including the increase of business
recycling to 70% by 2020 and zero waste to landfill by 2031. One of
our objectives at Function is to help clients meet their corporate
and social responsibilities by putting your redundant office
furniture to good use, or at least recycling. We offer an environmentally-friendly and sustainable
solution that won't cost the earth.
Our service covers practically everything in your office: desks; chairs; storage; even carpet tiles, heaters, fans and lights. We take any furniture - irrespective of condition - and guarantee that nothing is sent to landfill. Reusable furniture is distributed to charities or resold to offset the costs of your relocation. Remaining equipment is broken down into component materials for recycling.
Disposal of
IT
The aim of the Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is to minimise the
impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment by
increasing re-use and recycling and reducing the amount of WEEE
going to landfill. Function offers a service to comply with the
WEEE Directive for all redundant electrical and electronic
equipment and for media such as tapes, floppy disks, CDs and DVDs.
All we require is one phone call and a minimum of three days'
notice. Notify us of the equipment to be disposed of and we pack
and barcode your equipment prior to transporting it to our facility
for testing. Each item is entered on to an asset-tracking database
where information relating to the manufacturer, specification and
serial number is recorded. The equipment is then tested and graded
and hard drives are either wiped or destroyed.
Equipment which is
operational will be sold on behalf of the customer or donated to
charitable organisations. Equipment which fails the tests will be
sent for recycling according to WEEE and RoHS (Restriction of the
use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic
equipment) Directives.
You can be certain that all data stored on your equipment is obliterated and totally unrecoverable by any commercial means. If a hard drive cannot be wiped, it is removed and physically punched through or degaussed, making any data unreadable.