Electronics Waste Recycling
Certified & Secure Product Destruction
From time-to-time businesses must dispose of products that are faulty, counterfeit, expired, recalled, below standards, or otherwise unusable. Product destruction ensures that these items will never be seen in the marketplace, where they could potentially harm consumers or tarnish the company name.
Certified and Compliant
Secure and Safe Destruction
Your products and reputation are secure when you use us to handle the safe and complete destruction of your products or equipment. We will ensure that faulty, substandard, excessive stock will not enter the market and provide the COD (Certification of Destruction) that you may need for a release of liability.
Product Destruction Methods
We will tailor our methods to meet your individual needs, whether it is to destroy overstock or defective or returned items and keep them off the market. Our product destruction methods enable us to demanufacture projects, small and large.
Product Recalls
Recalled products require specific actions to show compliance with a recall, as well as the need to be destroyed in a manner that does not harm the environment. We provide a Certificate of Destruction certifying that items have been adequately destroyed.
Counterfeit Products
Counterfeit products pose serious safety issues as they are often made from inferior materials or are below safety standards. Sometimes they are seized by authorities or are brought to public attention because of problems. They also infringe on copyright and brand integrity. Our methods ensure complete destruction that will completely mitigate the possibility of further damage.
Defective Products
Defective product destruction keeps faulty products out of the resale market and from competing against your own brand or posing hazards to the public. It also helps to avoid litigation as a result of unsound items. We can completely destroy them while fully complying with government and environmental regulations.
Distribution Center Overstock
Excess inventory can become a disastrous financial burden for businesses, as it represents a financial loss and wasted resources. It does not make sense to store or pay for its upkeep, so companies try to mitigate additional loss by selling the B-stock at heavy discounts, which can cheapen the brand in the public eye. 1 Green Planet will destroy overstock in a manner that is safe for the environment, and safer for your brand and business.
Certified and Secure
Product Destruction Service For Every Need
1 Green Planet provides product and equipment destruction for all businesses and industries. It is important to make sure products are destroyed at all levels in every device.
We Make It Simple
Three Options to Suit Your Needs
Pickup
Free Pickup for Most Local Loads, and we coordinate Nation Wide.
Drop Off
Bring your electronics to our facility in Renton, WA for fast and easy service.
Bin Program
Our bin program offers rolling carts or collection totes for regular pickups
Our Process
On-site Collection
Our team will come to your location and pick up your end-of-life equipment or your recycling collection bins or totes. Our drivers and team are trained to handle your assets and data and keep them secure every step of the way.
Secure Transport
Transporting sensitive electronic recyclables requires safe and secure handling and our team of trained asset handlers have what it takes. We take care of the logistics of pick up and delivery to ensure that the ewaste or electronics arrive safely.
Sorting
Because e-waste contains many different types of materials, including plastics, glass, metals and more, there are several steps to recover the resources efficiently. Electronic items are first manually sorted. Some items are shredded to reduce them in size so that the reusable material within them is efficiently recovered. Items that should not be shredded or reduced, such as fluorescent lights, batteries, or hazardous materials.
Depending on the type of materials being recycled, there could be different outcomes: Refurbishing, Data Destruction, or Dismantle and Process
Remarket/Reuse
The data from these electronics are securely removed first, then the products are reintroduced into the marketplace, thus keeping them out of landfills as long as possible.
Data bearing devices
For computers, servers, tablets and phones – anything that carries your data – it’s crucial to properly destroy personal and confidential information, while keeping the products out of the landfill or in nefarious hands.
Secure data destruction
There are different methods and levels of destruction available, depending on your requirements as well as what is in compliance with specific industry standards. Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology method of sanitizing hard drives and electronic media removes the data completely from a readable drive. Damaged drives are shredded.
Dismantle & Process
Electronic items are reduced in size by shredding or crushing which breaks them down into fragments which can then be separated further. Magnets are used to remove steel and iron. Other methods are used to separate non-metallic materials from other metals like aluminum, brass, or copper. Plastic and glass are separated by using water. CRTs (cathode ray tubes), which contain toxins like lead, are handled in a separate process to avoid releasing these toxins into the environment or exposing them to humans and animals.
Recycle
Once properly separated and cleaned, each of these types of materials are then sold or downstreamed to other recyclers so that they can be made into new products.
Reporting
The last step after each of these methods is a complete reporting of the assets that were removed from the business, how and when they were processed, and a certificate of recycling or destruction is provided.
Zero Waste
Zero Landfill
