In June 2025, WV Tech was awarded a place on the Australian Financial Review’s Sustainability Leaders List, as the winner of the Retail, Media, Tourism & Technology category. This list celebrates Australasian companies that are tackling sustainability challenges – and delivering business value along the way.

Delivering business value while tackling sustainability and social challenges is at the core of WV Tech’s mission. We see beyond the ones and zeros of IT asset disposal, to the environmental benefits, to resource recovery in a modern take on Caring for Country, to setting up Australia’s Indigenous youth for success. Most of our work is centered around secure IT asset disposals – erasing all data from our customers computers, phones, and data centres and then refurbishing, reselling, or donating said devices. Those devices that require an even more secure touch are sent to our hammer mill at our Fyshwick site in Canberra, to be securely destroyed.

As a NAID AAA certified business, we take the security of our customers data seriously, which is why we have the hammer mill. The hammer mill pounds the devices down into dust – under 3mm. The we bring in an auditor to sieve the dust to make sure that more than 2 percent of the dust specks go the sieve.

And if the devices are obsolete, then we pull it apart and strip it for precious metals – another way we deliver business value. In 2024, our specialist staff recovered 6000 ounces of gold, 24,000 ounces of silver, 200 tons of pure copper, and 3000 ounces of palladium, all resources that we then export overseas to be smelted down and recirculated back into the global supply chain.