Why Does Electronic Recycling Cost Money?

7/15/19 - Countries in the Far East, including China and their neighbors, have started closing their borders to the importation of Recyclable Materials & Trash from the West; ports in Southeast Asia are turning away Container Ships full of trash and “recyclable plastic”, sending the ships back to their home countries. Unfortunately for us, this means that more of the material may need to be sent directly to landfills in the United States or stored until the electronic recycling market for computers and related equipment opens up.

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Drop-off Recycling

Free Items

Free

Computers - desktops, towers, workstations, servers
Switches, routers, hubs (metal cases)
Cables, wires, adapters
Motherboards, add-in cards
Power supplies
Server racks, shelves, rails, etc
Stereos and related electronics (metal cases)
DVR, Cable Box, Dish, etc.

Per Item Charges

varies

Printer, Scanner, Fax Machine Recycling- $5 per item
Laptop Computers, Notebook Computers, Tablets (battery & screen) - $2 per item
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), battery backups - $2/item
Cell Phone - $1/item
Recycling of Flat Screen displays (Monitors, LED, LCD, TV, Plasma)
- Small - 19" and smaller - $5/item
- Medium - 20"-24" - $10/item
- Large - 25-32" - $20/item
- X-Large - 33-49" - $35/item
- XX-Large - 50" and larger - $45/item

Per Pound Charges

varies

CRT Monitors & TVs - $0.60/lb
Disposal of mostly-plastic, but still hazardous, equipment - $0.30/lb
- Laser Toner Cartridges (without printer)
- Telephones (VOIP, PBX, cordless)
- Keyboards & Mice, Speakers, Laptop Docks
- Switches, Routers, Modems, VCR, DVD (plastic cases)
Disposal of Alkaline Batteries (AA, AAA, 9V, etc) - $2.00/lb
Disposal of Rechargeable Batteries (Laptop, cell phone) - $2.00/lb

Why Does Electronic Recycling Cost Money?

Drop-off Recycling

Free Items

Per Item Charges

Per Pound Charges

Data Destruction

DoD Wipe (erase & format)

Physical Destruction (shred)

Shredding