Every AI upgrade retires hardware loaded with recoverable metals trading at historic highs. Most organisations don't know what it's worth, what it contains, or whether they've disposed of it correctly. Orbit Loop fixes all three.
Devices that can't run AI workloads are becoming obsolete overnight. Not because they're broken — because they lack the Neural Processing Units the next generation of enterprise software demands. Every legacy device is now a disposal risk.
Gold, palladium, copper, and rare earth metals — the materials inside those devices — are trading at or near all-time peaks. The value is there. The infrastructure to recover it isn't.
The UK's Digital Waste Tracking enforcement makes paper disposal records illegal overnight. Most organisations — and most collectors — are completely unprepared.
Orbit Loop is not a recycler. We're the digital orchestration layer that sits between organisations retiring assets and the certified processors who want them.
Asset-light. Pure software margin. No fleet, no facility, no sorting overhead. We connect the supply to the demand and make the transaction fast, compliant, and valuable for everyone in the chain.
We focus exclusively on Category 3 corporate IT — laptops, enterprise servers, networking arrays. The premium end of the market, where recovery value is highest and compliance obligations are most acute.
Three connected stages that turn unmanaged hardware disposal into a compliant, auditable, revenue-generating process.
Think of a conveyor belt that takes a mixed pallet of hardware and instantly identifies every item — make, model, condition — without a human touching it. Our Vision AI reads the physical object, not a label.
How it works: A camera captures each device. Our AI cross-references against a dataset of thousands of hardware configurations. Within seconds: confirmed asset ID, hazard classification, and an LME-based recovery value — sealed into a Digital Compliance Passport.
Complete asset visibility from the moment hardware leaves a business. No spreadsheets, no manual logging, no gaps.
A single organisation's hardware retirement rarely justifies specialist collection in isolation. Today, that means material sits — frozen, unprocessed, growing as a liability.
Orbit Loop pools assets from multiple organisations into regional Hubs. 400 isolated pickups become one 20-tonne, pre-sorted, pre-screened logistics run. The kind certified processors actively compete for.
Aggregated, fully compliant loads are auctioned to a verified network of certified processors. Organisations receive the highest achievable value for their retired assets — not a disposal invoice.
Pricing based on live London Metal Exchange commodity rates. Full settlement transparency at every stage. Hardware disposal becomes a revenue line.
For IT Directors: airtight chain-of-custody on every asset. For ESG leads: auditable Scope 3 data and Waste Hierarchy reporting — generated without additional resource.
Waste Hierarchy reports generated automatically from asset-level data. No manual filing, no gaps.
Assets flagged for Persistent Organic Pollutants trigger mandatory destruction notices automatically, with a full timestamped audit trail.
All compliance records cryptographically sealed and retained for the full statutory period — available on demand for audit or due diligence.
Every asset gets a tamper-evident record: hazard status, classification, disposition pathway, and recovery value.
Orbit Loop connects natively to the Defra Digital Waste Tracking API. Compliance data flows directly into the national system — no middleware, no manual exports, no delay.
Hardware disposal has been treated as a cost centre for too long. The materials are valuable. The compliance obligations are real. The infrastructure to manage both properly hasn't existed — until now.
Orbit Loop is the connective layer between organisations retiring assets, processors who want compliant feedstock, and a regulatory framework that demands transparency.
October 2026 isn't a threat. It's the moment the market catches up with the problem. We're deploying our first Community Resource Hub in Oxford, with our compliance module live at the enforcement date.
Every required document generated automatically. No additional workflows for your team.
Every asset, every movement, every outcome — cryptographically recorded and auditable on demand.
Organisations receive settlement revenue from retired assets. The economic model is inverted.
Every partner is DWT-compliant and committed to traceable, auditable end-of-life outcomes.
We're working with a select group of mid-market and enterprise organisations ahead of public launch. If you manage IT asset disposal, ESG reporting, or both — let's talk.