CRT monitors are sent to a processing plant in the North Shore, Auckland. A single CRT monitor can easily contain up to 2kg of lead, cadmium, barium, and fluorescent powders and a few other nasty chemicals that we really don't want going to landfill! The recyclers we use are responsible, certified specialists who are the only ones in NZ with the knowledge and equipment to correctly recycle CRT screens.

Computers have the hard drives securely erased, to the US DoD Standard 5220.22M, 3 Pass Wipe. Where possible they are re-used to refurbish computers for resale to fund our free services, anything unable to be reused due to age or condition gets stripped down and recycled locally.

Scrap Computers, Laptops, Servers, and IT equipment, gets checked over and assessed, all items get the data erased, checked and tested, any item where possible gets Refurbished to the highest standards to be sold through TradeMe website, this allows us funding to continue to offer a Free Collection and Recycling Service. Any items too old, or faulty, get re-assessed, a lot of items not suitable for reselling through TradeMe can still be refurbished, and offered to lower decile schools or low-income families to help them and their children learn basic computer skills, we also regularly send items back to the Pacific Islands, items such as old radios, projector and of course older laptops, whilst not very useful in NZ can be a tremendous assistance for them.