Most e-waste companies charge you to haul your old electronics away and shred them. Maxicom does the opposite. We recover the value inside your retired business IT — the memory, drives, processors and components — so for business-volume equipment we pay you, wipe every drive to NIST 800-88, and collect free across Singapore (with collection arranged across Malaysia). You clear the space, keep your data safe, and get paid instead of billed.
A shredder-only recycler has one revenue line: the fee it charges you, plus whatever the crushed metal fetches by weight. It has no reason to recover the working parts inside — so it doesn't. We run the opposite model: we test and grade every asset, recover the components that carry value, and pass part of that value back to you as payment while still absorbing free collection and certified data wiping. Same clean, documented disposal; you just get paid for it.
| Scrap dealer | Shredder-only recycler | Maxicom | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you get paid? | A little, by metal weight | No — you pay a fee | Yes — for the value inside |
| Is your data destroyed? | Not reliably | Yes, by shredding only | Yes — NIST 800-88 / IEEE 2883 + certificate of destruction |
| Collection | You deliver | Sometimes, for a fee | Free in Singapore; arranged across Malaysia |
| What happens to the gear | Crushed for metal | Crushed | Reused first; only the rest recycled |
| Paperwork for your auditor | None | Basic | Certificate of destruction + chain of custody |
| Environmental outcome | Poor | Better, but destroys reusable value | Best — reuse-first; residual to licensed recyclers |
Every load is sorted into three streams. Reusable assets and components — the bulk of most business IT — are tested, data-wiped, refurbished and returned to service; this is where the value that pays you comes from. Data-bearing media is sanitised to standard or, where required, physically destroyed, before anything moves. Residual e-waste — the genuinely dead material that can't be reused — is passed to licensed recyclers for proper material recovery. You receive documentation covering the disposition, so your team can show exactly what happened to every asset.
Every data-bearing drive is sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 (HDD) and IEEE 2883-2022 (SSD/NVMe), with a certificate of destruction, on a documented chain of custody. Drives that can't be wiped are physically destroyed through a vetted partner. Certified destruction is what makes buyback safe under Singapore's PDPA and Malaysia's PDPA — so it's included in the deal, not billed as an extra.
Reuse beats recycling for both value and carbon. Manufacturing a new enterprise server emits roughly one to two tonnes of CO₂e before it's ever switched on; keeping a working server in service for a few more years recovers that embodied carbon — a figure your sustainability report can claim under frameworks like CSRD and ISSB IFRS S2. Our approach is reuse-first: the majority of what we collect is refurbished and redeployed, and only what genuinely can't be reused is sent to licensed recyclers for responsible material recovery — and you get the documentation to prove it.
Offices and corporates clearing space · IT teams running a refresh · data centres decommissioning across Singapore and the Johor/Iskandar corridor · banks, healthcare and government needing certified data destruction · schools and universities · and resellers, distributors, ITADs and MSPs clearing surplus and client stock. One pallet or a warehouse — the process is the same, and the paperwork always holds up.
Send us your inventory — a spreadsheet, a rough list, or just photos — and we'll come back with a written quote and a collection date.
Get my e-waste quoteMaxicom Singapore Pte Ltd is an independent IT buyback and recycling company based at 51 Goldhill Plaza, Singapore, serving businesses across Singapore and Malaysia. We recover the value inside retired business IT, destroy data to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883, and route reusable hardware back into service — paying businesses for equipment that other recyclers charge to take.
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