Our Processes
E-Tech Recycling is your complete and comprehensive E-Waste and Universal Waste recycling service. Not just for corporate IT systems but for the individual consumer as well. Your assets may have little to no residual value, are damaged, or obsolete.
Our first priority after testing the asset is to locate a reuse market. We will first to try to remarket all electronic assets either as a unit or component level. If the remarketing option is not financially feasible, E-Tech Recycling will than try to extract some residual value by recycling the asset for its base materials. Our ability to extract residual value from damaged or obsolete products allows us to greatly reduce disposal cost.
Electronic devices that need to be recycled often contain lead, plastics, and other forms of toxic waste and are subject to very strict government environmental compliance regulations.
E-Tech and our downstream partners for electronic and universal waste disposal can certify that toxic materials are discarded in an environmentally friendly and compliant manner. Upon completion of this process we can provide you with the proper Certificate.
Here are just a few examples of how E-Tech processes your assets:
Data Security
Any change to the possession of assets introduces an element of risk. Even an apparently simple change of possession can have an unexpected effect. E-Tech’s Risk Management Process eliminates all risk. All of our employees are screened and receive a background check. We only transport assets with our own fleet or with a trusted company and always in locked containers or vehicles. All of our facilities are under 24 hour video surveillance. The most important of your assets is your Intellectual Property (IP) stored on a Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Read more on about our process for your HDD once it reaches our facility.
Hard Disk Drive
[[Hard drives]] come off the transportation vehicle and are stored in a locked room until the Data Wipe process is complete. We only use state of the art software that meets the guidelines set forth in DOD 5220.22-M. We can also have your HDD completely destroyed by shredding it. We can erase or destroy your HDD and certify complete erasure or destruction of IP assets.
Desktop Computers
Computers are currently judged for resale or recycling based on MHz in the CPU. Those computers that are not meeting the market’s minimum demand are “recycled” meaning demanufactured for “parts” (i.e. boards, cards, RAM, ROM, Power Supply, cables, etc.). Computers that meet the market minimum and have a “resale value” are reused, redeployed, and remarketed.
CRT Monitors and Televisions
Any monitor or TV that is found to be non-working but has good glass is sent on as a “Useable” device for “re-use”.
Any monitor or TV found to be working but has some defect such as “Screen Burn” is consider “unusable” and will be demanufactured down to plastic, metal, boards, wires, and tube. All plastic, metal, boards, and wires are sent downstream to the end-of-life processor for their raw materials, where they are reborn as a commodity. The CRT tube is sent to glass-to-glass recycling.
Cell Phones and their Batteries
All cell phones and their batteries are separated and stored in Gaylord boxes and shipped as mixed lots based on current markets. All Gaylord boxes prior to shipping are stored in accordance with OSHA and EPA standards of universal and non-hazardous waste.
Printers
Any printer visibly “broken” having a cracked exterior or no longer assembled as one unit based on its original manufacture are demanufactured into plastic, metal, board and wire groups.
All Printer residuals (paper, ink, toner, etc.) are separated out and sent to an approved downstream end-of-life processor. Any toner cartridge that is deemed “un-recyclable” by the downstream processor is sent for incineration based our “No Landfill Policy”.
