Designing An Efficient Recycling Plan For Tech Businesses

Does your business need to replace a few computers in the near future? Do you receive a lot of electronics in cardboard boxes, plastic cases, and/or anti-static bags? Recycling everything can be a hassle without the right plans in place, and even if you don't about the environment or possible local laws, you could still be losing money without efficient recycling built into your business. Here are a few recycling planning points to help your business streamlines its waste process.

Separating Plastic, Paper, And Other Compact Materials

The start of a good recycling plan is having a separate recycling bin for plastics, metals, and paper. It all depends on how high your company's waste generation may be on given day, but if you can fill up the recycling bin with normal use, it's worth keeping. If your recycling containers have only one or two small items barely covering the bottom, the containers may not be needed.

If your company has large amounts of cardboard that must be disposed of, a dumpster with a thin deposit slot is helpful. These slots may it harder for disobedient/careless people to simply toss aside their random waste, and can remind people who simply wandered to the wrong dumpster.

Computer Recycling Options

For computers and other electronics, your main choice is whether to separate the device into individual, recyclable components or not. There are recycling pay rates for whole units as well as components and specific materials such as aluminum, copper, gold, or rare earth magnets.

To figure out the best option for your business, take apart a single device as a test and find the weight of specific materials inside the computer. If you don't know your way around the insides of a computer, you can task an information technology (IT) professional or an electrician to take apart the system and get the weight answers for you. 

Contact a recycling professional and ask about recycling rates for specific materials. Count up the amount of each material inside the system and multiply it by the potential payout, then figure out if dismantling pays out more than recycling the whole device.

For small parts recycling, hand-carry totes can make the dismantling, organization, and moving job easier. You can even color-code the containers for specific materials. For whole device recycling, a roll-off container or other larger container truck may be necessary to load the devices for recycling center delivery.

Contact a metal, plastics, and cardboard recycling pick up professional, like Weidle Sanitation, for general garbage removal assistance with tech-savvy businesses.

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