Our Services:
Logistics: Product pickup and packaging all equipment on site.
Recycling: Product disassembly, demanufacturing and destruction.
Equipment Purchase: The purchase of your equipment outright.
Physical Destruction: Hard drive shredding.
Secure Data Destruction: Data wipe of all hard drives
Document Destruction: The shredding of all sensitive records and other materials, on site if needed.
Audit Report: donors receive a report, including serial numbers, of all equipment received.
Appraisal: value for resale, liquidation or scrap.
Certificate of destruction.

Refurbish for reuse:

  • Removal or all asset or identification tags
  • Replacement or repair of all damaged
  • components
  • Cleaning the equipment
  • Testing the equipment
  • Refurbished equipment is sold through
  • various sales channels.

Equipment Accepted:

  • Desktop and laptop computers
  • Servers and workstations
  • Network equipment, including hubs, routers, nic
  • Monitors (no broken glass)
  • Printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines,
  • PC boards (motherboards, video cards, sound cards, etc )
  • CPUs
  • Memory modules, sd cards, flash cards
  • Data storage, including hard drives, floppy drives, CDROMs, DVD-ROM, optical drives, tape drives
  • Cables
  • Digital cameras
  • Cell phones
  • iPods
  • MP3 players
  • PDAs
  • Phone systems & communication equipment
  • Test equipment (oscilloscopes, etc.)

 

 

Palletizing & packaging:
Monitors: Place face down on a standard 40 x 48 pallet. Have them facing lengthwise. Put a cardboard separator under each row of monitors starting from the first level of monitors. Each row should have 9-12, depending on size. Try and put the same size monitors together so they don’t tip over. Shrink wrap the monitors starting by securing a small piece to the wooden pallet. You should put about 5 layers of wrap on the full pallet. Most importantly start to wrap from the bottom of wooden pallet and work up. Do not stack monitors higher then 4 rows.

Desktops: Neatly place computers on a 40x48 pallet with the front of each unit facing out, no more then 50-60 per pallet. Shrink wrap the computers starting by securing a small piece to the wooden pallet. You should put about 5 layers of wrap on the full pallet. Most importantly, wrap from the bottom of the wooden pallet and work up. Don’t stack monitors higher then 4 rows.

Printers: Neatly stack printers on a pallet and shrink wrap every 2 layers. Shrink wrap the printers starting by securing a small piece to the wooden pallet. You should put about 5 layers of wrap on the full pallet. Most importantly, wrap from the bottom of the wooden pallet and work up. Don’t stack monitors higher then 4 rows.

Laptops: Put laptops in cardboard boxes no more then 6 laptops high and no more then 30 laptops per box.

Other items: Other technology equipment can be placed in small or large cardboard boxes depending on qty. Keep product categories together, e.g., drives, boards, memory, etc.

June 21, 2007: In the fall of 2006 Illinois became the first state in the Midwest to begin recycling its surplus computers, cell phones and other equipment to prevent leaks of mercury, lead and other toxins into the environment. <More>

May 14, 2007: Most large companies haven't written green criteria into their companies' buying process, according to a report by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. <More>

January 19, 2007: TJX Companies, which handles credit card transactions for VISA admits data breach through improperly disposed of PCs. TJX may be liable under state laws, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards and VISA’s Card Holder Security Program. <More>

 

 

 
 
 
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