Deciding what an asset should become — before anyone calls it waste.

What IT asset recovery covers at TAR

• Asset collection coordination — agreeing how equipment leaves site and reaches TAR.
• Sorting and evaluation — separating equipment by type, generation and condition.
• Inventory management — recording what arrived, in what state, and where it went.
• Reuse opportunities — identifying which assets can go straight back into service.
• Recovery solutions — extracting value from assets that cannot be resold whole.
• Responsible processing pathways — routing residual material appropriately, with specialised partners where required.

Where recovery sits in the IT asset lifecycle

An IT asset has a predictable life: procurement, deployment, productive service, refresh, and then a decision point. Recovery is that decision point. It is the only stage where a genuine choice still exists between reuse, resale, parts recovery and material recovery — and once equipment is treated as waste, that choice is gone permanently.

This is why TAR treats evaluation as the important step rather than a formality. Equipment that arrives described as scrap frequently is not.

Sorting and evaluation

Incoming equipment is separated by category, then by generation, then by condition. Enterprise hardware is assessed for completeness — rails, caddies, power supplies and modules materially change what a unit is worth. Storage media is separated from everything else and handled under storage media solutions.

Inventory management

Suppliers reasonably want to know what happened to what they sent. TAR maintains inventory records covering what was received, how it was categorised and which route it took. The level of detail is agreed with each supplier — some want a line-level record, others only need totals.

Reuse before recovery

TAR's order of preference is fixed: whole-unit reuse → component reuse → material recovery. This order is commercial as well as environmental. A working switch is worth many times the value of the metal inside it, so there is no tension between the responsible answer and the profitable one.

Equipment that cannot be reused moves into electronics recovery and WEEE solutions.

Honest limitations

TAR is a trading and renewal business, not a certified processor. TAR does not provide certified data destruction, does not issue destruction certificates, and does not guarantee regulatory compliance on a supplier's behalf. Where a supplier requires certified processes, TAR will say so and work with specialised partners rather than imply capability it does not have.