WEEE (Computer) recycling toolkit
IT-Green is a (Computer / telecoms recycling) (WEEE compliant) recycling company, covering the whole of the UK. It currently operates with a view to provding UK businesses with a safe (licenced and trackable) and secure (certified confidential waste destruction) method of disposing of their IT (e-waste) hardware. Directors anticipate Authorised Treatment Facility status (ATF) by Oct 2008 and AATF (Approved Authorised treatment facility) by Jan 2009. If you're a manufacturer of eee, you need the latter (through a PCS- Producer compliance scheme). If you are a personal user (member of the general public) wanting to recycle your hardware, you can drop it off with us (in Cambridge) or search for a DCF (Designated collection facility)
Saturday 6 September 2008, 1:26 PM
CKS in Administration
There's a change of wind in the air. With the CKS Group having just gone into administration this Summer (I undestand an investment of £8 million was made in the latest plant in Cinderford, Gloucestershire) the processing plants will soon be idle, unless a rescue package is implemented and to be honest with you, given the current financial climate, coupled with the recycling market, I doubt it'll happen. CKS Group targeted business WEEE (IT, Comms and Computers).
The whole point of this is that CKS weren't really known, outside of their sphere of influence. A contact, who runs a charitable recycling initiative and shall remain anonymous, stated that their "sales team weren't up to scratch" basically meaning that the waste streams weren't generated to support the capital that had been sunk into the plant- they weren't exactly picking up the yellow pages and going out meeting and greeting. In effect, it goes back to what I posted a week or so ago- the infrastructure simply isn't in place to support such large capital investments.
I guess, in effect, they sunk the cash into the plant to coincide with the launch of the WEEE directive and simply expected the legislation to bite home and get the waste flowing their way. So much for Due diligence.
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That sounds about right. The local management teams were top of their game, however those higher up were sinking everything they had, hopes and money into the failed Cinderford plant. Whilst this was happening, the only branch capable of generating a worthwhile income was supporting everything else and as a result soon ran out of the funds to do so.
Sales staff with company Mercs who could only manage to get meagre contracts with the odd primary school says it all.
How many computers are there out there?
How many in homes.
How many in offices.
How many in large corporations.
The company had a HUGE possibility, especially having the only recycling plant of it's type in the country. Only idiots could not make it work.
I agree with the above reply, if the staff at the profitable branch had been allowed to get on with their jobs without so much head office interference it would have been a nice, tidy profitable business. The branch had great potential, which was wasted by a few idiots who never visited. Turning away customers because of personal addenda’s, was not the way to run a company.
