What is Technology Exchanges process for recycling and disposing e-waste?
When we partner with an organization like the Green Project, where they host events or a drop-off point where people come by and drop off their equipment, and we collect it, it comes back to our 30,000-square-foot facility, where we process the equipment and separate it by type, age and condition. Computers get separated, monitors get separated, keyboards, mice, everything. The material, once it’s broken down and separated, does have component value in quantity, and it gets sold to secondary scrap recyclers throughout the country. We take the material that can have some value — circuit boards, hard-drives — and separate and sell to individual buyers by the Gaylord (a heavy-duty fiberboard box used for shipping electronic waste that contains hazardous materials). A Gaylord can weigh several hundred pounds to a couple thousand pounds. So all of a sudden, if they got a hard drive that weighs 2 pounds, and you get four cents a pound for it, that’s eight cents you just made. So fill that Ga
