Social Value | Mer-IT Repairs

Your Partner for Secure ITAD & Social Impact

Meet Your CSR Goals with traceable Records

We turn your surplus laptops into community and environmental value. Devices are wiped using established erasure tools, with chain-of-custody reporting and certificates of data erasure available as an add-on. Impact is estimated up front and reported after beneficiary reviews.

Social and Environmental Value Impact Calculator

Number of Laptops

2021 or newer

Large Volume? We'll plan delivery with you.

Laptops manufactured in 2021 or later. We assume 80% are redeployable (placed with families, or sold to cover our costs where contributions don't). The other 20% are lost, for example because they fail testing or can't be repaired. For large volumes, we plan delivery with you.

🔒Every device we receive is wiped to NIST SP 800-88 using the same procedure, and tracked under a full chain of custody from collection to its new owner. As a community refurbisher rather than a certified ITAD provider, our standard agreement leaves data responsibility with the donor. Where your organisation needs documented proof for each device, per-device certificates of data erasure are available as an add-on.

Indicative estimate for laptops manufactured 2021 or later, using standard figures: 165 kg CO₂e of manufacturing emissions avoided and 1.5 kg per redeployed laptop. It assumes 80% of donated laptops are redeployed. Our full software replaces these with manufacturer-published Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) data and manufacturer-stated weights for each specific device, and records what happens to every laptop. Older devices are assessed individually in the full report.

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Estimated manufacturing emissions avoided when a reused laptop replaces the production of a new one. Calculation: laptops × 80% × 165 kg CO₂e, the average production-phase footprint (use phase excluded) across manufacturer-published footprints for Dell, Apple and HP laptops. Individual models range from about 100 to 240 kg. Our full software uses the manufacturer-published footprint for each specific model. Assumes each reused laptop displaces a new one. This figure doesn't change with your contribution level.

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Calculation: laptops × 80% × 1.5 kg. 1.5 kg is a typical weight based on manufacturer-stated weights of business laptops (1.3–1.8 kg: Dell Latitude 5450, Lenovo ThinkPad E14, T14 and T14s). Excludes charger and packaging. Our full software uses the manufacturer-stated weight of each device.

Projected number of households receiving a laptop, assuming one per household. Calculation: laptops × 80% × the share placed with families (30%, 50% or 70%, depending on your contribution level). Confirmed after our 3- and 6-month reviews from our partner charity.

Estimated training hours for young people. Without a funded module: laptops × 80% × 6 hours, assuming trainees refurbish the laptops. With a funded module: 1,440 hours per module (12 young people × 12 hours a week × 10 weeks). If both apply, we show the larger figure, never the sum, because refurbishment hours are part of the module. At large volumes the figure is "up to", because it depends on trainee capacity. In the full report, hours are logged per student and per device. Our software records each student's hours, work and tools towards a digital CV, with a student portal launching soon.

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Projected, not yet earned. Your contribution is counted at £1 for £1, and carbon value is tonnes of CO₂e × £67.01 per tonne. Families, training hours and kilograms are outputs and are not converted into £. Social value is only credited after our 3- and 6-month reviews with the receiving charity, which confirm that laptops reached beneficiaries and are in use. Your impact report shows what actually happened.

FUND A PROJECT, INCREASE YOUR SOCIAL VALUE

Fund the Refurbishment Process

No contribution: 30% placed with families

Standard (£105 per laptop): 50%

Premium (£150 per laptop): 70%

TRAINING OPTION A:
Digital Inclusion / Repair Workshop

£1,500 Each

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0 Free community repair workshops for vulnerable people, held in community centres. Each 4.5-hour day includes three one-hour sessions in which four students each work one-to-one with a community member (up to 12 participants, with a teacher present), plus preparation and debrief. Counted £1 for £1. Attendance is recorded for your report.

No contribution: laptops are reused and environmental value is reported. We may sell up to 70% of redeployable laptops to cover our costs, and 30% are placed with families.

Standard (£105 per laptop): covers intake and storage, data wiping, refurbishment, and cleaning and delivery. Raises the share placed with families from 30% to 50%.

Premium (£150 per laptop): adds new batteries and chargers for longer use, and raises the share to 70%. We always keep the right to sell 30%.

TRAINING OPTION B:
Fund a course module

£18,900 For 10 weeks

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0 Each module is a 10-week programme for up to 12 young people, 12 hours a week (120 hours each, up to 1,440 hours in total). It funds the teacher and programme costs, and is counted £1 for £1 here. It is separate from the refurbishment contribution. Training outcomes are reported after delivery, not before.

How we handle your data

Your devices. Every device we receive is wiped to NIST SP 800-88 using the same procedure and tracked under a full chain of custody, from collection to its new owner. Our standard MoU sets out where data responsibility sits, and per-device certificates of data erasure are available as an add-on.

What we record. We keep only the information needed to manage your donation and report its impact: your organisation's contact details and device records, such as model and serial number. We do not collect personal data about the people who receive refurbished laptops.

Where it is stored. Our in-house software runs on Supabase, an established database platform, with data hosted in the EU. Access controls (row-level security) ensure each organisation and partner charity can only see its own records.

Questions? If your data protection team needs more detail, contact us at info@mer-it.org.