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Innovative recycling facility expands

~ SCC and Remploy combine to provide new staff for ground-breaking IT recycling centre ~

March 28, 2008

The largest independent technology group in Europe is expanding its pioneering recycling facility.

SCC has appointed Remploy to identify and appoint new employees with disabilities and health conditions for the Neo Park recycling centre in Birmingham.

The 50,000 sq ft recycling facility – the only one of its kind in the UK – enables SCC to provides a full range of refurbishment, remarketing, disposal and recycling options to firms with redundant IT and electronics equipment. A £5million investment at Neo Park means the facility is a one stop shop service where redundant kit can be taken away and new kit delivered at the same time.

Remploy is the market leading expert in the provision of specialist employment services for disabled people and those who experience complex barriers to employment. Its comprehensive range of services enables disabled people, people with a health condition and others to make the most of their skills and abilities, to gain or retain sustainable employment. Remploy, which has a city centre branch in Newhall Street in Birmingham, helped over 5,000 disabled people to gain employment with mainstream employers last year.

Over a five-year period SCC’s customers using the recycling facility at Neo Park could put back up to 30 per cent of their IT into their businesses and the savings through refurbishment could be up to 90 per cent on technology capital expenditure. Refurbishment costs are thought to be around 5-10 per cent of the average desktop.

The decision to engage Remploy is a further extension of the social responsibility agenda SCC has worked under since it was set up three decades ago by Chairman Sir Peter Rigby. When he founded the company in 1975, Sir Peter’s stated intent was to bring the benefits of technology to the community in which the company operates and that still holds true to this day.

SCC’s recycling facility in Birmingham utilises new technology to reduce redundant IT to its basic components, cutting the amount of waste going to landfill to zero per cent.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the European Union. In the UK, an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of e-waste is produced each year.

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Jon Sansom, who runs the recycling facility, explained it was vitally important for SCC to appoint the right people to the right jobs when providing such a specialist service.

“We have invested heavily in the facility at Neo Park and the technology we use is some of the most advanced in Europe,” he explained. “Getting the process right is clearly imperative.

“It is just as important that we get the right people on board to run the facility.

“SCC has already used Remploy to appoint a number of people to Neo Park and it has proved very successful. The roles included those who help sort out the equipment when it first arrives at the centre and more technical and specialist positions further along the process.

“We have been so impressed with the quality of candidates that we’ve reached an agreement with Remploy to help us recruit more roles. The centre will continue to expand so we will be looking to use Remploy a lot more in the future.”

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NeoPark
SCC provides 50,000 sq ft state-of-the-art recycling facilities within a 120-mile radius of 85 per cent of UK’s businesses.
The Bimingham-based recycling facility NeoPark employs the latest technology (depollution, shredding, separation, granulation and reprocessing) to efficiently destroy and recover optimum raw material recyclates from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).
Being a one-stop-shop by taking away redundant kits and delivering new ones at the same time, the facility reduces the carbon emission significantly and ensures a zero per cent landfill from redundant IT. It also
provides extensive WEEE reporting output and subsequent evidence for CSR and regulatory, environment agency requirements.
The waste licensed activity operates in accordance with UK WEEE regulations, is accredited with ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2000 and applies best practices in its recycling processes. SCC is also an affiliated member of ICER (Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling).

Remploy
As a specialist employment services group, Remploy provides disabled people, people with a health condition and those who face complex barriers to gaining a job with the support they need to find sustainable employment.

Last year, Remploy helped over 5,000 disabled people into sustainable employment with many of the UK's top employers such as BT, Asda and Christian Salvesen. It has branches throughout the UK including Birmingham, Cardiff, Coventry, Plymouth, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool and Nottingham.

For further information please see: www.remploy.co.uk

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Account Manager at LEWIS

Tel: +44 (0)161 601 7742

Email: sccuk@lewispr.com

Web: www.lewispr.com

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