Electronic Waste Recyclers
Electronic Waste
The concept of Silicon Alley was born after reading an article in the Detroit News which explained Southeast Michigan ALONE sends over 2 BILLION POUNDS of Electronic Waste into our landfills, YEARLY!
In today's super fast and ever growing daily business world, it's electronics that leads the way in creating this exponential growth. However, to remain competitive, the speed with which organizations must continuously upgrade their electronic equipment creates a new problem.Â
"What do we do with the old, outdated (or defective) equipment?"
Most companies utilize far too many resources in storage facility, time management and executives stressing over this ongoing problem. Worries regarding ever changing Federal and State EPA regulations, adverse publicity to just "dumping" the waste, not to mention the liability issue of "sensitive data" remaining on hard drives, (and more) tends to make organizations storage area(s) of these products to keep growing larger and larger, taking away space for productivity. Furthermore, these products have very typically already been fully depreciated, leaving little, if any, redeemable financial value.