Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 19 January 2022.
Zack Polanski
Green
How many technological devices and accessories, such as mobile phones, computers, tablets, laptops and charging cables, has the GLA discarded since 2018 via recycling services and general waste? Could you provide this broken down by number of units disposed of by year and method.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London
The GLA uses a specialist equipment disposal service (Restore) that take all our old IT equipment (equipment that has either reached the end of its usable lifecycle or has been replaced as part of a corporate upgrade), wipes the devices of all data (in line with data protection legislation) and either disposes of the equipment (in line with environmental guidelines), or seeks to reuse the equipment – through its relationship with schools and charities. Below are details of the equipment processed by Restore. No IT items are discarded through general waste. These figures include equipment from the GLA, MOPAC and OPDC.
2018
2019
2020
2021
Totals
Desktop
102
66
267
405
840
247
5
0
704
956
Laptop
36
15
11
132
194
Misc. e.g. adapters, cameras, projectors
82
70
1
132
285
Mobile phones - including Blackberry Devices
32
15
19
192
258
Monitor
346
66
227
401
1040
Network
20
8
24
311
363
Printers
12
8
1
31
52
Servers
29
3
0
40
72
Desk Phones
5
2
0
594
601
Total
911
258
550
2942
4661
