For large corporate companies we pick up for free and if you items are newer they actually pay you for them. Most free pick ups must have at least 50lbs worth of items to recycle.

They do all of our recycling with high standards. The highest and best form of recycling is reuse. Giving a product a new life.

1. Testing
That is why every item they receive which could have a useful life is tested to see if it works. If it does then they will refurbish the hardware to make it usable by someone else, to give it a new life. In this way it totally avoids going into the waste stream, it also avoids the costs and environmental damage cause when making new hardware. In many cases a complete system will not function but many of the internal parts do, when this happens they try to find out the problem and fix it. disassemble the system and go back to testing to test every part, keeping those that work to be reused and putting the rest into our recycling system.

2. Refurbishing
They have a highly qualified team that recycles our system, they get them ready for resell, often making them better than when they were new by upgrading them. Many systems and items are sold in our retail store, Emerald Computers. Many items are sold to other computer companies who use them to serve their customers, other items that are hard to sell to the general public are sold on ebay. This reselling is how we are able to actually pay people to recycle their computer systems. We give back a large amount to charity, we also give 1 out of every 10 refurbished computers to charity. When we stumble across data left by a client on any device that data is quickly and securely destroyed.

3. Dis-assembly
When they can’t fix something, or when the item is too old to be useful then they dis-assemble it. For newer items we then test each part of the system, keeping those that work to be reused and putting the rest into our recycling system. For older systems they are completely disassembled and sorted into each material type.

4. Recycling
Once things are taken apart they then recycle each material with an ISO certified company in each area. They try to recycle everything locally in the state of Arizona, and we have successfully found someone for every material stream except PCB which is sent to large companies in California who recycle it there.