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When companies decommission their hardware, they go to a large scale "recycler". Most of the time that means pulling the drive on the PCs and maybe dropping another in before reselling it for less.
Some companies also recycle things like digital signage players, which could be purpose built hardware and mostly useless or purpose built software and fairly useful if you know what to check for. Or sometimes speakers, audio dsp's, monitors, etc.
Other times when a company is being liquidated (like being sold off to pay for debts), it'll get auctioned off. You don't get to look at the details much (maybe one device pulled out in front of the crate the rest are in), you are buying in quantity, etc, but there can be good finds there.
I'm big on making use of perfectly good hardware with just a few years on them.