Recycling is important and needed for a healthy planet and life. If you choose to donate computers, tablets and phones and want them to be reused by others please ensure that you delete all of your personal information off of them, if it is an Apple product, make sure you release the device from icloud.
Typically, regardless of the device type you would want to delete your web browsing history, delete your document folders, photos, videos, recycle bin and programs that may hold personal information.
Here are links to both Microsoft Windows and Apple on how to wipe data from the device.
1. Microsoft Windows
2. Apple
If you are still concerned about privacy, we can peform permanent physical hard disk data destruction.
- Nearly 90% of what we throw away could potentially be recovered through reuse, recycling, or composting.
- More Americans recycle than vote.
- The EPA admits all landfill liners will eventually leak and their toxic leachate, or garbage juice, can seep into and contaminate soil and groundwater supplies. Roughly 20% of the sites on the Superfund list (the nation’s most hazardous sites) are solid waste landfills.
Items We Do Not Accept
- Glass screen televisions
- Projection televisions
- Glass screen (CRT) computer monitors
- Flat panel televisions over 40 inches
- Copy machines and printers
- Hazardous chemicals or materials
- Wooden housed appliances such as televisions
- No Cardboard, Glass, Broken plastic pieces or panels, wood boards, nails or furniture and definitely no trash of any kind. You can call your local trash company and schedule a pickup for that.
Absolutely no glass screen televisions. People have been abusing this rule and have cost us hundreds of dollars. Cameras have been installed to catch future abusers.
Items We Accept
- Computers (desktops, servers, notebooks, laptops, tablets)
- Servers (all types of servers)
- Keyboards
- Mice
- Speakers
- Scanners (if a printer is attached to it, we cannot accept it)
- UPS and Battery backup systems
- Networking Equipment (switches, hubs, routers, network cards, rack stands, enclosures)
- Hard Drives (DVD, CDROM, HDD, Floppy, Tape Backup etc.) **We are in desperate need of SATA Hard Drives**
- Lead, Steel, Copper, Aluminum, Brass, Tungsten, Carbide, Iron (Bits, pieces, and parts)
- All stereo and audio equipment
- Cameras
- Camcorders
- Cell Phones -in any condition, broken or not.
- All Palm equipment and Video Game Systems
- Video Games
- DVD Players CD and DVD Media
- Floppy Disks
- All Phone Equipment
- Radios from two-way systems and vehicles (CB radios, walkie-talkies, scanners, shortwave, ham, police/fire radios)
- Microwaves / Toasters
- Washers / Dryers
- Ovens and Stoves
- Arcade Equipment (vending machines, pinball, video, misc. dispensary machines)
- Electrical wires, cables, adapters,connectors, plugs, power supplies,power adapters, cases, metal racks, and other misc. electronic components and equipment
- Industrial equipment such as motors, welders, CNC, lathes, and other misc. tools
- PLC Equipment
- Circuit boards
- Basically anything that runs off of electricity or plugs into an outlet, it does not have to be in working condition, parts, pieces
If there is anything that is not on this list that you may have, please feel free to ask us.
Please use the Contact page.
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