Urban Ore recovers the value locked inside end-of-life electronics — securely, compliantly, and with a certificate to prove every step. From a single household drop-off to a full data-centre decommission.
Every redundant laptop, server and drive your organisation holds carries three risks at once: recoverable data waiting to leak, environmental penalties under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act — fines of up to R10 million or imprisonment — and residual asset value evaporating month by month. Most companies pay all three prices simply by waiting.
A single unwiped drive can undo years of POPIA compliance work. "Deleted" is not destroyed — and regulators know the difference.
E-waste is legally banned from South African landfills. Improper disposal exposes directors personally — not just the company.
Gold, copper, palladium and resale-grade equipment sit depreciating in storage. Recovered properly, they offset the cost of disposal — often entirely.
The drawer of old phones, the garage of dead appliances — bring them to us, or let us come to you. Responsible disposal shouldn't be complicated.
Office refreshes, laptop fleets, retired servers. We collect, wipe, certify and report — so your audit file is complete before you've thought to ask.
Mines, plants, data centres, telecoms infrastructure. High-volume, high-stakes decommissioning delivered with engineering-grade planning and reporting.
Six disciplines, one accountable partner. No hand-offs to third parties you've never vetted.
Zero-landfill processing of computers, appliances, batteries, cabling and electronics of every kind. Materials are separated, refined and returned to the supply chain — the urban mine, worked properly.
Structured retirement of IT estates: audit, collection, data sanitisation, refurbishment or destruction, and resale where value remains. You receive a full asset-level report, serial by serial.
Software wiping to international standards or physical destruction beyond any possibility of recovery — on our floor or yours. Every device certified, every certificate audit-ready.
Functional equipment is graded, refurbished and remarketed. The proceeds come back to you — turning a disposal cost line into a recovery credit.
Sealed, tracked transport from your premises to ours, handled by vetted personnel. Chain of custody is unbroken from your loading bay to the certificate in your inbox.
Documentation for the Waste Act, POPIA, EPR regulations and your ESG disclosures — prepared by people who work with these frameworks daily, not annually.
Tell us what you're holding. We scope volumes, data risk and recoverable value — and quote within 24 hours.
Our team arrives on schedule, inventories every item, and transports it under seal. You sign once; we track everything.
Data is destroyed and certified. Equipment is refurbished, harvested or refined. Nothing — nothing — goes to landfill.
Within 7 days you hold destruction certificates, recycling reports and asset-level documentation. Your auditors will not have questions.
The richest deposits of gold, copper and rare metals in South Africa are no longer underground. They're in storerooms, server racks and kitchen drawers — and we built Urban Ore to mine them responsibly.
Urban Ore was founded on a simple conviction: e-waste is the only waste stream that gets more valuable the more carefully you handle it. We combine the security discipline of an ITAD specialist with the metallurgical rigour of a resource company — recovering data-safe, planet-safe value from technology at every scale, from a household's old phones to an enterprise's entire data centre.
Based in [CITY, PROVINCE] and serving clients nationwide, we hold ourselves to the standards of the world's leading lifecycle companies — because that is who we intend to stand alongside. Every kilogram we process is documented. Every certificate we issue is defensible. Every client relationship is built to last decades, not transactions.
[PLACEHOLDER — e.g. "We decommissioned 400 machines across three sites. Urban Ore handled everything, and the destruction certificates were in my inbox before our next audit committee meeting."]
[PLACEHOLDER — e.g. "The asset recovery credit covered the entire cost of the collection. It's the first time disposing of equipment has ever put money back into our budget."]
[PLACEHOLDER — e.g. "I dropped off ten years of old electronics in fifteen minutes and got a destruction certificate for my old laptops. Painless."]
Anything with a plug, battery or circuit board: computers, servers, phones, printers, monitors, appliances, cabling, UPS units, batteries, lighting and industrial electronics. If you're unsure, send us a photo — we'll tell you within the hour.
Every drive is either wiped to internationally recognised sanitisation standards or physically destroyed, and each device is logged by serial number. You receive a Certificate of Data Destruction listing every asset — the document your auditors, insurers and POPIA compliance officer want to see.
For qualifying volumes, yes — and where your equipment holds resale or material value, recovery proceeds can offset or exceed the processing cost. We quote transparently before anything leaves your premises, so there are never surprises.
Working equipment is data-sanitised, refurbished and remarketed. Non-working equipment is dismantled and its materials — metals, plastics, glass — are recovered and returned to the supply chain. Nothing is landfilled, and nothing is exported to unregulated processors.
Yes. We operate in accordance with the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, POPIA data-protection requirements and [LIST CERTIFICATIONS / REGISTRATIONS, e.g. ISO 14001, ISO 27001, e-WASA membership]. Documentation is available on request — we'd rather you check than wonder.
Yes. We coordinate collections across provinces under a single project plan, with one point of contact, consolidated reporting and consistent chain of custody at every site.
Book a free, no-obligation collection assessment. We'll tell you what your retired equipment is worth, what it will cost to clear — and in many cases, the second number is smaller.