AWARENESS Public awareness of the health and environmental risks posed by E-waste generally, and CRT's specifically is virtually non-existent. Most consumers are unaware of the toxic material housed in today's electronics. Awareness and access to recycling opportunities are also extremely limited. These electronics contain hazardous materials that become a concern at the end-of-life cycle of electronics. Some of these hazardous substances include: lead, mercury, cadmium, equivalent chromium, plastics including PVC and brominated flame retardants.

CENTRAL RECYCLING - We Care about our World

Today we are faced with a growing problem of electronic waste that’s increasing every year. Technological advances while advantageous in some respects, are silently threatening our environment, health and that of future generations.

While landfilling our excess e-scrap the hazardous materials housed within these products are causing serious environmental and health concerns. These substances include lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, plastics and brominated flame retardants. Each of these substances can affect both the environment and human health through our drinking water, food contamination, and invisible toxins in the air.

Electronics containing cathode ray tubes (CRT”s) such as televisions, and computer monitors are among the worst offenders. As such, many cities have passed state laws recognizing CRT”s as hazardous waste and thus disallowing them from landfills.

While recycling has been touted as the key to our concerns about hazardous waste, exporting our e-waste is definitely not the answer. Less developed countries are experiencing catastrophic results due to all the illegal e-scrap being dumped on them by industrialized nations.

Our five core initiatives are promoting environmental safety, improving health thereby reducing health costs in the future, saving money by reusing recyclable products, creating jobs and saving valuable landfill space.

Educating the public, while recycling as much e-waste as possible is the key to changing our take on our “disposable” society.

Our method of recycling entails a three-step process. We go through a triage for a removal of materials that are not suitable for recycling. Then the products go through a preparation phase, delamination phase and finally a separation phase.

Data security issues are at the forefront for most businesses that are involved in equipment resale, recycling and donations. There are several options for deleting data. Data overwriting, drive degaussing, drive destruction and delamination are all existing methods. Where the first three options provide individuals with the right equipment the opportunity to retrieve data, delamination is the only sure-fire alternative. In delamination, all the information is destroyed completely. No technology can ever recover data that no longer exists.

As we saw earlier delamination is part of our recycling process and in conjunction with the other steps provides a sustainable solution, by recovering all resources that go into the drive, while providing absolute data destruction every time.

We are confident that our recycling program will be the start of global advancement for both environmental and health standards.

United Nations Environment Program