Hundreds of tonnes of old computer equipment are to be recycled in the northwest after a multi-million pound deal was signed involving a Greater Manchester company.

IT Remploy E-cycle, which is based in Radcliffe, has signed a three-year IT processing and recycling partnership with global technology services firm Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

The agreement will see E-cycle manage thousands of pieces of end-of-life computer equipment which are handled by EDS globally every year.

Staff at E-cycle will collect the redundant equipment from EDS sites before recycling or refurbishing it.

Tony Stroud, general manager of Remploy E-cycle, told the Manchester Evening News: "We are delighted that EDS has chosen E-cycle as its preferred supplier in the provision of services for the management of redundant hardware."

Yesterday (August 26th), EDS was bought out by technology giant HP, in a deal worth $13.9 billion (£7.5 billion).