Every organisation that uses computers, servers, mobile devices, and networking equipment eventually faces the same unavoidable question: what do you do with technology when it reaches the end of its useful life? The answer to this question matters far more than most businesses realise, and understanding why requires appreciating three distinct dimensions of the problem simultaneously.
The first is environmental. Electronic waste — or e-waste — is the fastest-growing solid waste stream in the world, and India is now among the top five e-waste generating countries globally. Discarded IT equipment contains a complex mixture of valuable recoverable materials like gold, silver, copper, and palladium alongside genuinely hazardous substances including lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants. When this equipment is disposed of through informal channels — broken apart by hand in unregulated recycling operations — both the workers and the surrounding environment are exposed to serious toxic risk. Responsible IT Asset Disposal (ITAD) ensures that this material is handled by trained technicians using proper facilities and processes.
The second dimension is data security. Every hard drive, SSD, mobile phone, and server that leaves an organisation’s premises carries residual data unless it has been systematically erased or physically destroyed using certified methods. Simply deleting files or even formatting a drive does not remove data in a way that prevents recovery by sophisticated tools. The consequences of inadequate data destruction — regulatory penalties under India’s DPDP Act, reputational damage from data breaches, or commercial espionage — can be orders of magnitude more costly than the ITAD process itself. Organisations that treat data destruction as an afterthought to equipment disposal are taking risks they have rarely fully quantified.
The third dimension is value recovery. Functioning equipment — or equipment that can be refurbished to functioning condition — retains commercial value that responsible ITAD companies can realise on behalf of their clients, either through direct resale, parts harvesting, or commodity material recovery. This means that a well-structured ITAD programme is not merely a cost of doing business but often a revenue-generating activity that partially or fully offsets disposal costs.
India’s ITAD sector has matured significantly in recent years, driven by stricter enforcement of the E-Waste (Management) Rules under the Environment Protection Act, growing corporate awareness of data security obligations, and the increasing sophistication of the recycling infrastructure available in the country. The following ten companies represent the most capable, credible, and actively operating ITAD providers in India in 2026.
1. Attero Recycling
Attero Recycling is the most technologically advanced e-waste recycling company to have emerged from India’s domestic ecosystem, and its significance to the ITAD industry goes well beyond its own commercial operations. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, Attero operates what is widely regarded as India’s most sophisticated hydrometallurgical metal recovery facility — a technology that extracts precious and base metals from electronic scrap through wet chemical processes rather than the cruder smelting approaches that most recyclers in India and globally still rely on.
This technological sophistication means that Attero recovers a significantly higher proportion of the valuable materials in discarded electronics than conventional recyclers, which translates into better residual value realisation for its ITAD clients and a smaller environmental footprint per tonne of material processed.
For IT asset disposal specifically, Attero handles the full spectrum from enterprise-scale server decommissioning and mass laptop retirement programmes to mobile device disposition and data centre tear-downs. Its data destruction capability includes both certified software-based wiping using NIST-approved standards and physical shredding, with documented chain of custody and destruction certificates. In 2026, Attero has expanded its collection infrastructure significantly, with processing facilities and collection points across multiple Indian cities that make enterprise collection logistics manageable even for geographically distributed organisations.
Core strengths: Proprietary advanced metal recovery technology, certified data destruction, enterprise ITAD programme management, and genuine processing depth that outperforms most Indian competitors on material recovery rates.
2. Cerebra Integrated Technologies
Cerebra Integrated Technologies is a Bengaluru-headquartered ITAD and IT refurbishment company that has built one of India’s largest and most integrated operations spanning the full lifecycle from asset collection through data sanitisation, refurbishment, remarketing, and responsible recycling of residual materials. What makes Cerebra particularly important in the Indian ITAD context is its refurbishment and remarketing capability — rather than treating all retired IT equipment as waste to be dismantled, Cerebra’s technically trained team assesses each device for refurbishment viability, restores functioning equipment to a certified working condition, and sells it into India’s substantial secondary IT market.
This value-recovery orientation means that Cerebra’s clients often receive a meaningful return on their disposed assets that partially or fully offsets the cost of the disposal programme.
Cerebra is an authorised Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) under India’s E-Waste Management Rules, and its compliance infrastructure — including EPR certificates, documented processing records, and audit-ready reporting — is designed specifically to meet the compliance documentation requirements that corporate legal and compliance teams need. Its client list spans major Indian IT companies, multinational corporations with large India operations, and government institutions managing fleet refreshes of significant scale.
Core strengths: Integrated refurbishment and remarketing capability for maximum value recovery, strong compliance documentation, Producer Responsibility Organisation status, and enterprise-scale programme management.
3. Ash Recyclers
Ash Recyclers is a Chennai-based e-waste and ITAD company with a strong regional presence in South India and a growing national footprint that has made it one of the more active mid-sized ITAD providers serving corporate clients across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. The company handles IT asset disposal for corporate clients including data destruction, hard drive shredding, equipment dismantling, and downstream recycling, and its operations are authorised under India’s E-Waste Management Rules with valid Central Pollution Control Board authorisations.
Ash Recyclers has invested in building transparent chain-of-custody documentation for its ITAD clients — a practical necessity given that corporate compliance teams increasingly require auditable records showing exactly how disposed equipment was handled from collection through final processing. Its geographic strength in South India, which hosts a very large concentration of IT companies and global capability centres in cities like Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, makes it a natural and convenient ITAD partner for organisations in the region who prefer a provider with genuine local operational capability rather than a distant national company managing logistics from afar.
Core strengths: Strong South India operational presence, authorised e-waste processing, chain-of-custody documentation, and practical accessibility for IT companies in the major South Indian technology hubs.
4. E-Parisaraa
E-Parisaraa is a Bengaluru-based e-waste recycler that holds the distinction of being India’s first government-authorised e-waste recycling facility, having received its operating authorisation from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board in 2005. This pioneering history gives it a depth of operational experience and regulatory familiarity that newer entrants simply cannot replicate, and its long-standing relationships with regulators, corporate clients, and Original Equipment Manufacturers make it one of the most credible names in India’s formal e-waste and ITAD sector. The company processes a wide range of electronic waste including computers, servers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics, recovering materials through both mechanical and chemical processing methods.
For ITAD specifically, E-Parisaraa provides certified data destruction services alongside equipment collection, processing, and material recovery, with documentation designed to satisfy corporate compliance requirements. Its work with OEM take-back programmes — where electronics manufacturers use E-Parisaraa to fulfil their Extended Producer Responsibility obligations — gives it processing volumes that support the maintenance of skilled technical staff and proper equipment that smaller, newer operators cannot justify. Its decades of operation in India’s regulatory environment also mean it navigates compliance changes with a confidence that benefits its corporate clients who need a reliably compliant downstream partner.
Core strengths: Pioneering regulatory history, OEM take-back programme experience, certified data destruction, and deep familiarity with India’s e-waste regulatory framework developed over two decades of operation.
5. Ecoreco
Ecoreco is a Mumbai-headquartered e-waste management company that has built a national presence across India through a combination of its own processing infrastructure and a carefully developed collection network. The company serves corporate ITAD clients including banks, insurance companies, healthcare organisations, and technology firms, handling the collection, data destruction, and environmentally responsible disposal of retired IT equipment. Ecoreco’s particular strength in the financial services sector reflects its investment in the kind of rigorous data security processes and chain-of-custody documentation that heavily regulated industries require — banking and financial institutions face strict RBI and SEBI data governance requirements that make the quality of their data destruction documentation a genuine regulatory concern rather than merely an internal policy matter.
Ecoreco’s operations are authorised under India’s E-Waste Management Rules, and the company has developed its compliance reporting infrastructure to align with the documentation requirements that corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting increasingly demands. As listed Indian companies and multinationals operating in India face growing pressure to disclose their e-waste management practices in sustainability reports, the quality of the compliance records that an ITAD provider maintains becomes a selection criterion that goes well beyond operational convenience.
Core strengths: Financial services sector expertise, strong data security documentation, national collection network, and ESG-aligned compliance reporting capability.
6. Karma Recycling
Karma Recycling is a New Delhi-based company that has carved a distinctive position in the Indian ITAD and device disposition market by combining corporate ITAD services with a consumer-facing device buyback and resale platform, giving it a dual-channel approach to value recovery that pure-play recyclers cannot match. Founded with a focus on mobile devices and consumer electronics, Karma has expanded its enterprise services to cover laptop and desktop retirement, server disposition, and IT equipment recycling for corporate clients, while its consumer platform — which buys, grades, refurbishes, and resells used smartphones and laptops — provides a robust secondary market outlet for refurbishable devices recovered through its corporate ITAD operations.
This integration of B2B ITAD with B2C resale is strategically valuable because it maximises the value recovered from each device that passes through Karma’s operations — a device that a corporate client has retired as end-of-life for enterprise use may have substantial residual value in the consumer refurbished market, and Karma’s dual-channel model captures that value in a way that single-channel recyclers cannot. The company has developed certified data wiping processes and provides destruction certificates to corporate clients, and its growing enterprise client base reflects increasing recognition that ITAD providers with active resale channels generally offer better residual value outcomes than those whose only downstream path is material recovery.
Core strengths: Integrated B2B ITAD and B2C resale model for maximum device value recovery, certified data wiping, mobile device and laptop specialisation, and growing enterprise client base.
7. Hulladek Recycling
Hulladek Recycling is a Kolkata-headquartered e-waste management company that has built a meaningful presence in East India — a region that is often underserved by ITAD providers concentrated in the major metros of Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai. The company’s operations are authorised under India’s E-Waste Management Rules and cover the collection, processing, and material recovery of a wide range of electronic waste including IT equipment, consumer electronics, and electrical appliances. For corporate ITAD clients in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, and the northeastern states, Hulladek’s regional presence provides a practically convenient and regulatory-compliant disposal option without the logistical complexity of shipping equipment across the country to a processor in a different region.
Hulladek has invested in expanding its collection infrastructure and processing capacity in recent years, and its work with corporate Extended Producer Responsibility programmes has given it the operational experience of managing high-volume, compliance-sensitive equipment flows. The company’s positioning as a regional specialist in an underserved geography is a genuine strategic differentiation — organisations with operations in East India often find that national ITAD providers struggle to service their locations effectively, and a well-established regional provider with proper authorisations and documented processes fills an important gap.
Core strengths: Regional East India presence serving an underserved ITAD geography, authorised e-waste processing, Extended Producer Responsibility programme experience, and corporate ITAD services.
8. World ITAD
World ITAD is a specialist IT asset disposition company focused specifically on the corporate and enterprise segment, providing ITAD services that include asset collection, certified data destruction, equipment grading and remarketing, and responsible recycling — all underpinned by the kind of audit-ready documentation and chain-of-custody rigour that enterprise compliance requirements demand. The company’s singular focus on ITAD, as distinct from broader e-waste recyclers that handle consumer electronics and appliances alongside corporate IT equipment, means its processes and documentation are designed specifically for the corporate procurement and compliance context.
World ITAD’s remarketing capability is one of its most commercially valuable offerings, allowing clients to recover meaningful residual value from functioning or refurbishable equipment rather than treating all retired assets as scrap. The company maintains relationships with secondary market buyers — both domestic and international — for refurbished IT equipment, which allows it to realise the maximum commercial value for equipment at the top end of its asset quality spectrum while routing lower-value material to appropriate recycling channels. Its data destruction services include both software-based wiping and physical destruction options, with certificates and chain-of-custody documentation provided for every device processed.
Core strengths: Enterprise-focused ITAD specialisation, remarketing and value recovery capability, certified data destruction with audit documentation, and processes designed for corporate compliance requirements.
9. Greenscape Eco Management
Greenscape Eco Management is a Bengaluru-based environmental services company whose e-waste and ITAD division has developed a strong reputation among corporate clients in Karnataka and the broader South Indian technology corridor. The company provides end-to-end IT asset disposal services covering collection logistics, data sanitisation, equipment dismantling, material segregation, and downstream processing through its authorised facility. Its environmental services background gives it a systems-level understanding of waste management compliance that is valuable for corporate clients whose ITAD requirements sit within broader corporate environmental management programmes.
Greenscape has developed particular depth in managing data centre decommissioning projects — the planned retirement of large server environments that involves not just the disposal of hundreds or thousands of servers but also the careful management of structured cabling, power infrastructure, and cooling equipment, each of which requires its own disposal pathway. The data centre decommissioning use case is growing rapidly in India as organisations migrate workloads to cloud infrastructure and retire on-premises hardware, and providers with specific experience in managing the complexity of these large-scale decommissions are in increasing demand.
Core strengths: Data centre decommissioning expertise, corporate environmental services integration, South India operational presence, and end-to-end ITAD programme delivery.
10. ITRenew (Operating in India)
ITRenew is a US-headquartered specialist in hyperscale data centre decommissioning and IT asset disposition that has developed significant operations serving Indian clients, particularly large technology companies, global capability centres, and hyperscale cloud operators with substantial data centre footprints in India. What makes ITRenew’s positioning distinctive in this list is its specific expertise in high-volume, high-security decommissioning of enterprise data centre infrastructure at a scale and with a security rigour that most domestic ITAD providers are not currently equipped to match. Its processes are designed around the stringent data security and audit requirements of the world’s largest technology companies, many of whom operate in India and require ITAD partners who can meet their global vendor standards in the Indian market.
ITRenew’s value recovery model focuses on maximising the secondary market value of data centre components — servers, storage arrays, networking equipment, memory modules — which retain significant commercial value in the refurbished enterprise equipment market that a purely scrapping-oriented approach would forgo. This specialisation in the hyperscale and enterprise data centre segment fills an important gap in India’s ITAD landscape, providing large technology organisations with a partner that brings international programme management experience and data security rigour to their Indian decommissioning projects.
Core strengths: Hyperscale and enterprise data centre decommissioning specialisation, international-standard data security processes, high-value component recovery from data centre equipment, and service capability for large technology companies’ global ITAD programmes.
What Makes a Strong ITAD Partner in India in 2026
Reading across these ten providers, a few selection criteria emerge as genuinely decisive when choosing the right ITAD partner rather than simply the most convenient one.
The first and most important is regulatory compliance status. Every legitimate ITAD provider operating in India should hold valid authorisation under the E-Waste (Management) Rules from the appropriate State Pollution Control Board or Central Pollution Control Board, and should be able to provide current, dated copies of these authorisations on request. An ITAD provider without valid authorisation is not merely cutting corners — it is exposing its clients to potential regulatory liability, because the organisation generating the e-waste retains legal responsibility for its proper disposal regardless of who they have contracted to manage it.
The second criterion is the quality of data destruction documentation. The data destruction certificate provided by your ITAD partner is the evidence that would protect your organisation in the event of a data breach investigation or regulatory audit. A certificate that simply lists serial numbers and a destruction date, without specifying the destruction method, the standard to which the destruction was performed, and the name and authorisation of the facility that performed it, provides very limited actual protection. Asking to see a sample certificate before awarding an ITAD contract tells you a great deal about the seriousness with which a provider approaches this dimension of the work.
The third criterion is downstream transparency — understanding not just what happens at the ITAD provider’s own facility but where material goes after it leaves that facility. Responsible ITAD companies maintain documented relationships with their downstream processors and can account for every material stream through to final disposition. Providers that cannot or will not explain their downstream processing arrangements are a significant due diligence risk.
Conclusion
India’s IT asset disposal industry in 2026 is more capable, more compliant, and more commercially sophisticated than at any previous point in its development. The regulatory framework established under the E-Waste Management Rules continues to mature, corporate awareness of data security and environmental responsibility is rising, and the ten companies profiled above represent genuine operational quality across the spectrum of ITAD needs — from startup laptop retirement programmes to hyperscale data centre decommissioning. For any organisation generating retired IT equipment in India, the question is no longer whether responsible ITAD exists in this market. It is simply a matter of choosing the partner whose specific strengths best match the scale, security requirements, and value recovery expectations of your particular programme.
