The state of Texas recycled 85.5 million pounds of e-waste in 2015. The number dropped substantially to only 35.1 million pounds in 2019, mainly due to an overall decrease in the number of operational facilities that process e-waste in Texas. CompuCycle has proved to be a saving grace for the state, providing secure corporate e-waste solutions. Its corporate recycling program is R2 certified and compliant with all the local and international laws and corporate electronic recycling regulations out there.
We recently received a call from a huge manufacturing company located in Houston, Texas. The representatives of the business required a customized corporate recycling program that included onsite electronic shredding for specific devices and secure offsite recycling and hard drive shredding for others. We scheduled a day and time with them and sent a team of experts to their facility.
Our team reached the facility to find several storage rooms full of redundant and end-of-life IT assets and electronics, including batteries, UPS systems, servers, mainframe equipment, server racks, laptops, computers, modems, switches, routers, network equipment, business phones, VOIP, PBX systems, fax machines, typewriters, HDDS, AC adapters, power supplies, monitors, pagers, cable boxes, video devices, circuit boards, and much more.
Talking with the management of the company, we found that it always thought e-scrap was not a serious business and the internal IT team was capable of securely wiping off data on its own until a partner firm lost millions of dollars to ransomware and legal penalties. The company searched for R2 certified and experienced electronics recycling services and came across CompuCycle.
Our team separated the equipment they wanted shredded onsite and started packing all the redundant IT assets that needed to be transferred back to our facility. Our state-of-the-art mobile shredder started the onsite shredding process while the
company’s management witnessed it live on a screen. We transported the rest of the equipment to our facility and provided the management with the documentation we prepared for each and every device. Our asset collection and logistics processes are extremely secure as well.
Back at our facility, we tested all the equipment using different testing methods, as Responsible Recycling (R2) requires. We videoed all the test processes and documented the results. R2 standards also suggest that only the devices whose primary or secondary functions can be performed after refurbishing qualify for refurbishment and remarketing. Adhering to that requirement, the equipment that was reusable was sent for refurbishment, while the devices that were at the end of their usable life were sent for destruction.
One of the major benefits of IT equipment recycling is that even non-reusable devices are extracted of their value. After shredding the pieces of electronics, valuable materials like silver, gold, copper, and aluminum are separated and sent to be reused in the production of several other products. The rest of the shredded material is disposed of following environmentally friendly and safe processes.
The devices that were refurbished were put up for resale to a huge network of buyers that constitutes communities and non-profit organizations that cannot afford new IT devices. Purchasing refurbished IT equipment is the only way they can access the technology.
Corporate battery recycling is a sphere that requires a separate set of expertise and advanced equipment. CompuCycle's data center decommissioning service, as well as corporate battery recycling service, is one of the best in the US as it has industry-leading experts as part of its core team.
The remarketed equipment was sold within a couple of days, and the returned value was given back to the manufacturing firm along with proper documentation and reports pertaining to secure data destruction and environmentally safe IT asset disposition. The firm was overwhelmingly impressed by our corporate recycling program and services and has hired several of our other corporate e-waste solutions since then. The CEO of the company called CompuCycle to thank for its services that she thought were "remarkable, and extremely professional."
There are a number of electronic recycling centers out there that businesses can choose from. However, compliance, data security, and environmental protection are features that very few computer recycling companies offer. Whether it is office electronic recycling or computer equipment recycling, businesses need to perform due diligence before choosing a corporate electronic recycling service.
For compliant, secure, and complete electronics recycling choose a certified r2 escrap recycler. We tailor our corporate e-waste solutions to the specific tech recycling needs of your business and organization. With our robust and secure chain of custody and asset inventory, auditing, and testing services, you will not have to
worry about the e-scrap that your business produces anymore. Let us handle your e-waste while you focus on value-adding operations and the bottom line of your business.