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ERA technician testing donated devices

What we do

Practical technology lifecycle services.

Secure pickup, NAID-aligned data destruction, responsible recycling, and a donation pipeline that puts refurbished devices back into classrooms and community organisations.

Service 01 · For businesses

IT asset disposition (ITAD).

End-to-end management of retired technology — from secure pickup at your facility to serialised inventory, data sanitisation and final disposition reporting. Built for IT teams, compliance officers and finance leaders who need a clean paper trail.

  • On-site collection across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch; NZ-wide logistics on request
  • Locked transit, GPS-tracked vehicles, signed chain-of-custody
  • Asset-level serial number reporting
  • Resale recovery value where applicable
  • ESG-ready environmental and social impact summary
Request an ITAD quote
Server with hard drives glowing in racks — staged for secure IT asset disposition

Service 02 · Security first

Data destruction.

NIST 800-88-aligned data sanitisation, with physical destruction available on-site or at our Auckland facility. Every drive — wiped or shredded — is logged and tied to a certificate of destruction.

  • On-site mobile shredding — truck-mounted shredders at your facility
  • Off-site destruction with witnessed options — watch in person, or receive live or recorded video
  • Certified multi-pass software erasure on every device slated for reuse
  • Serialised reporting on request
  • NAID-aligned procedures

Documentation you receive

  • Collection Certificate
  • Collection Inventory Spreadsheet — make, model and serial
  • Data Wipe Certificate
  • Certificate of Destruction — itemised by serial number
  • Donation-in-Kind Certificate
Schedule a destruction job

Watch · On-site shredding

ERA mobile shredder in action

Service 03 · Responsible fallback

Electronics recycling.

For devices past their useful life, we route material to certified downstream recyclers — never to landfill, and never shipped overseas as waste. Reuse is always the first option; recycling is the responsible fallback.

Electronics being sorted at an ERA recycling event

Service 04 · Giving back

Technology donations.

Working hardware doesn’t need to be recycled. We refurbish business-grade laptops and desktops and donate them to verified schools, not-for-profits and student programmes — starting in Auckland and reaching internationally.

Who can apply: not-for-profit organisations, charities, care facilities such as hospitals and aged-care homes, and schools and educational institutions in the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury regions. Applications are reviewed first-come, first-served and fulfilled as refurbished stock allows.

  • Refurbishment to a clean, current OS baseline
  • Recipient verification (schools, not-for-profits, student programmes)
  • Standard refurbished laptop or desktop (i5, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) — no charge
  • High-end builds (newer i5/i7) for a modest fee that funds the programme
  • Story-back reporting: see where your donations went
  • Donation acknowledgement letters for qualifying donors

Donating equipment? Tell us which charity you’d like to support — we’ll direct your donation.

Request donation
Student with a refurbished ERA laptop and her award-winning classroom poster

What we accept

From a single laptop to a full server room.

Working or not, we take it — reuse first, responsible recycling as the fallback. And a single laptop really does count: mail it in with a free shipping label.

  • Desktops
  • Notebooks & laptops
  • Printers & imaging
  • Peripherals
  • Phone systems
  • Software
  • Racks, lab equipment & disk arrays
  • Servers

PC and Mac, including partial units, parts and motherboards. Plus docking stations and cables; inkjet and laser printers, plotters, copiers, scanners and fax machines; keyboards, mice, drives and cards; office and VoIP phone systems; server racks and miscellaneous data-centre and lab hardware — and tablets, smartphones, TVs and gaming systems. Software is accepted alongside any hardware pickup.

Service area

Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch pickups — and beyond.

Free pickups across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and their surrounding areas. Larger jobs and NZ-wide logistics handled on request. Anywhere else in Aotearoa New Zealand, small devices travel by mail: request a free prepaid NZ Post label. We’ll email you the label — print it, attach it, and drop your parcel at any NZ Post store.

Now serving Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch — expanding NZ-wide.

Request a pickup
Map of Aotearoa New Zealand: Auckland facility, with pickup coverage in Wellington and Christchurch

Take action

Ready when you are.

Whichever door you pick, a device ends up somewhere it can do more good.