MAT-Wide IT Disposal: Managing Multiple School Sites
Running IT asset disposal for one school is manageable with a bit of planning. Running it consistently across a multi-academy trust with eight, fifteen, or thirty schools is a different problem entirely — not because the underlying rules change, but because getting the same standard applied everywhere, without every school inventing its own version of […]
iPhone 18 Pro & iPhone Duo Are Here: What to Do With Your Old iPhones
Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event landed on 9 September 2026, and it delivered exactly what the rumour mill had been promising for months: the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the iPhone Duo — Apple’s first-ever foldable phone. For businesses running iPhone fleets across sales teams, executives, and field staff, this is […]
DfE Digital Standards: What They Actually Require for Device Disposal
Most schools have heard of the DfE’s digital and technology standards in the context of buying new laptops or reviewing broadband speed — less often in the context of what happens when a device reaches the end of its life. That’s partly because the standards don’t sit in one single “how to dispose of a […]
University IT Asset Disposal: Handling Research Data & Bulk Devices
A university’s IT estate looks nothing like a school’s, and the disposal problem that comes with it is a different scale entirely. Instead of a few hundred Chromebooks and a couple of servers, you’re often looking at thousands of devices across departments, halls of residence, research labs, and administrative offices — each with different owners, […]
Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Disposal: A School’s Guide
Every school has one somewhere — an old interactive whiteboard, unplugged and pushed against a wall in a corridor or storage room, replaced by a newer panel but never actually dealt with. It’s too big to quietly bin, too old to be worth much, and nobody’s quite sure who’s supposed to arrange collection. So it […]
Chromebook Disposal for Schools: What UK Schools Need to Know
A lot of UK schools rolled out 1:1 Chromebook programmes over the past few years, and a lot of those same schools are now hitting the point nobody quite planned for: the first big wave of devices reaching end of life all at once. A trolley of forty Chromebooks that were fine two terms ago […]
Printer & Photocopier Disposal for Schools: What Gets Missed
When a school clears out old IT equipment, the laptops and Chromebooks usually get the attention. The printer sitting in the corner of the office, or the photocopier that’s been “replaced but not moved yet,” tends to get left until someone trips over it. It’s rarely intentional — printers just don’t feel like the kind […]
ITAD for Schools UK: The Complete Guide to Secure IT Disposal
Most schools don’t set out to accumulate a storeroom full of dead Chromebooks, retired printers, and interactive whiteboards nobody’s used since the projector bulb blew. It just happens — a device refresh here, a curriculum change there, a few years pass, and suddenly IT asset disposal (ITAD) is a problem someone in the office has […]
SSD Shredding vs Data Wiping: Which Method Actually Destroys Your Data?
Sooner or later, most businesses hit the same question: an old server, laptop, or batch of SSDs needs retiring, and someone has to decide what happens to the data on them. The two obvious options, shredding the drive or wiping it, sound interchangeable at first glance. They’re not, and picking the wrong one for the […]
