UK businesses are sitting on a hidden asset. Somewhere in your organisation — in storage rooms, desk drawers, or IT cupboards — there are smartphones and tablets quietly losing value with every passing month. Estimates suggest UK households alone hold around 527 million unused devices, and business environments mirror this hoarding behaviour almost exactly. If you are an IT manager, procurement lead, or business owner looking to sell old phones and recover meaningful cash from decommissioned hardware, the good news is that the value is often still there. The challenge is knowing how to access it quickly, securely, and [...]

WEEE Recycling: Guide for UK Businesses The UK generates approximately 24 kg of e-waste per person every year — one of the highest rates in the world. Yet despite that volume, national WEEE collection figures have barely shifted since 2018, reaching around 496,000 tonnes in 2024, a rise of just 0.6% over six years. Meanwhile, the devices being refreshed, decommissioned, and quietly accumulating in IT cupboards across the country continue to mount up. Most businesses know they have some obligation to handle electronic waste responsibly. What is far less clear — even to experienced IT managers and procurement leads — [...]

E-Waste Explained: What UK Businesses Need to Know The UK generated approximately 1.8 million tonnes of e-waste in 2025 — a 6% increase on the previous year. Of that, only around 496,000 tonnes were formally collected and processed through official channels. That gap is not simply an environmental statistic. It represents hundreds of thousands of tonnes of end-of-life electronic equipment leaving UK businesses through informal, undocumented, or non-compliant routes every year — taking unwiped data, unrecovered value, and unreported environmental impact with them. For IT directors, procurement leads, and IT asset managers, electronic waste is not a distant sustainability concern. [...]

IT Asset Disposal: The Complete Guide for UK Businesses   The UK generates approximately 1.8 million tonnes of e-waste every year. Yet according to Material Focus data, formally collected volumes stand at around 496,000 tonnes — less than a third of what is actually generated. The gap is not a recycling infrastructure problem. It is a process problem: businesses are replacing devices faster than ever, driven by OS migrations, tightening security requirements, and accelerating fleet refresh cycles, but their approach to disposal rarely keeps pace with their approach to procurement. For most organisations, device acquisition is a structured, documented process. [...]

How to Factory Reset Samsung & Android Devices UK businesses are sitting on more retired devices than ever. Whether you are mid-way through a fleet refresh, decommissioning an office, or simply upgrading a team's handsets, the question of how to prepare those devices for trade-in rarely gets the attention it deserves. The UK generates around 24 kg of e-waste per person — among the highest figures globally — and a significant proportion of that stems from devices gathering dust in drawers rather than re-entering the circular economy. The financial cost of inaction is just as real: with average device ownership [...]

How to Factory Reset Your iPhone Before Selling or Trading In According to the ICO, 14 million people in the UK do not know how to erase data from an old device. That statistic, published in December 2024, is striking enough on its own — but scale it into an organisational context and the implications become considerably more serious. If nearly a quarter of the adult population is unclear about how to wipe a personal smartphone, what does that mean for a business managing dozens or hundreds of corporate devices through a refresh cycle? The risks run in two directions. [...]

    According to Deloitte estimates, around 7 million unused phones worth more than £500 million are sitting idle across the UK right now. Some are in kitchen drawers. Many more are in IT storage rooms, locked in device cupboards, or listed on internal asset logs that nobody has reviewed since the last refresh cycle. The value is real. The opportunity is largely being missed. For an individual looking to sell a personal handset, the question of where to sell a phone in the UK is relatively easy to answer. A quick search, a comparison site, and a prepaid envelope [...]

  Here is a striking reality that most IT and procurement teams overlook: approximately 88% of smartphones replaced by businesses are still fully functional at the point of disposal. Yet the residual value locked inside those devices quietly evaporates — lost to poor disposal decisions, ad-hoc resale arrangements, or devices quietly accumulating in IT storage rooms waiting for someone to decide what to do with them. For UK businesses approaching a device refresh cycle, fleet upgrade, or office decommission, the question of what to do with outgoing phones is rarely treated with the strategic attention it deserves. The instinct is [...]

International Women’s Day at iGo Life Why leadership stories still matter International Women’s Day is often about visibility — but at iGo Life, it’s also about substance. Leadership isn’t just about representation or titles. It’s about how decisions are made, how people are supported, and how a business shows up for its customers and its team. At the heart of iGo Life are two women leading side by side: Sonia Blakesley and Malgorzata Glin. Different backgrounds, different strengths — but a shared belief that the best businesses are built through collaboration, trust, and long-term thinking. Meet the women behind iGo [...]