The short answer:
UK IT disposal pricing clusters around a few transparent unit rates: WEEE collection from roughly £250 per van load, data destruction around £10 per drive (or £495 per 100), and WEEE recycling from £195 per pallet. Most variation comes from scope, access, and method — not from headline device counts.
A transparent benchmark of what UK organisations actually pay for IT asset disposal, secure data destruction, and WEEE services — built from published rates, public contract awards, and real quotes rather than guesswork.
Data collected: August 2026 • For: finance, procurement, IT, and compliance teams • Methodology
Real, current service pricing (ex-VAT). This is the transparent baseline every market range is compared against.
| Service | Unit | TFix published |
|---|---|---|
| Secure WEEE collection | per van load | £250 standard · £350 premium · £0 local rebate* |
| Data destruction | per loose drive | £10 |
| Data destruction (batch) | per 100 loose drives | £495 |
| WEEE recycling | per pallet | from £195 |
| WEEE recycling (monthly) | 3 pallets / month | from £495 |
| IT decommissioning | per project | from £995 / £3,495 / £9,995 |
| Returns & RMA | per device | £25 |
| Fulfilment (inbound) | per pallet | £50 |
* Local rebate: free collection for eligible organisations with 10+ laptops or desktops within 6 miles of CR4 3FH. See Secure WEEE Collection for full terms.
Published award values from Find a Tender (Open Government Licence), collected August 2026. These are whole-project awards, not per-unit rates — they show what public buyers actually pay across IT disposal, WEEE, and destruction.
| Buyer | Contract | Award value (ex VAT) | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Police | Electrical & metal waste disposal (WEEE) | £132,000 | 6 yrs |
| Regional public authority | Waste disposal call-off (trade waste) | £50,000 | 4 mo |
| Avon & Somerset Police | Waste management — LOT 5 IT disposal | £35,500 | 4 yrs |
| London Borough of Lewisham | IT asset disposal of old laptops | £30,470 | 1 yr |
| Regional public authority | ICT disposal services | £17,062* | 3 mo |
| Greater Manchester Police | Seized e-bikes & e-scooters destruction | £14,400 | 18 mo |
| Regional public authority | ICT disposal (on-site shredding) | £11,520* | 1 mo |
| NHS Business Services Authority | Secure destruction of confidential waste | £0 (zero-cost) | 4 + 2 yrs |
* Converted from the published inc-VAT award at the standard 20% VAT rate (ICT Disposal Services £20,474 inc; ICT Disposal £13,824 inc). The Lewisham award was made under the Kent County Council "IT Hardware, ITAD and Associates Services" framework — a live public-sector ITAD route. Full source notices are listed in the benchmark data file.
Public-sector IT disposal awards cluster around £11k–£36k per project, while multi-year WEEE contracts reach six figures. Per-unit market ranges for data destruction and recycling are not published here yet because fewer than two independent unit-rate sources exist — in line with our no-estimation rule. TFix publishes its unit rates above precisely because most competitors do not.
Using TFix published rates only (ex-VAT), before any asset-recovery value offset:
Actual totals vary with asset mix, site access, method requirements, and reporting depth. See ITAD Pricing Drivers for what changes cost, and Asset Recovery for value that can offset it.
About the benchmark and the pricing behind it.
It combines TFix published rates with public contract award values from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, published competitor price lists, and anonymised quotes. Market ranges are only published where at least two independent sources agree; no figures are estimated.
No. All prices are normalised to exclude VAT, matching standard UK business-to-business trade pricing.
Quarterly. Each refresh re-collects sources, updates the data-collected date, and republishes any changed ranges.
Transparent pricing is part of the service model. Publishing real rates lets procurement teams compare on equivalent scope instead of relying on quote-only pricing.
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