The right end-of-life for every device — and the audit trail to prove it.
Most equipment that gets called "recycling" still has useful life left, salvageable parts, or recoverable value. Our job is to extract every dollar and every gram of useful material before the genuine scrap goes to a certified domestic recycler.
Real diversion, real recovery, real documentation.
Representative numbers across the projects we have run — we share the actual figures for your project in the closeout package.
What every ton of properly processed e-waste saves.
Equivalent to a passenger car off the road for ~4 months.
Plus toxic leachate (lead, mercury, BFRs) kept out of groundwater.
Recovery uses under 10% of the energy of equivalent ore extraction.
Versus extracting the same quantity from copper ore.
The three-stage waterfall
Every device that comes through our process is evaluated against three sequential outcomes:
1. Refurbish for reuse or resale
Functional equipment is tested, cleaned, data-destroyed, repaired if needed, and resold through certified secondary-market channels. We follow practices similar to what you see at Sunnking — the goal is to keep working hardware in service for as long as it has economic and functional life.
2. Destroy & harvest for the secondary market
Equipment that isn't worth refurbishing as a unit often contains components that are worth harvesting: memory modules, drives, GPUs, NICs, PSUs, processors, and rare-earth-containing assemblies. These enter the parts secondary market and offset disposal cost.
3. Recover & recycle remaining materials
Whatever can't be refurbished or harvested goes to a certified domestic recycler for commodity recovery — steel, aluminum, copper, plastics, glass, and circuit-board precious metals. This is the model used by responsible processors like ECOS Recycles: zero overseas dumping, full chain of custody, and certificates available on request.
What we accept
- ComputersDesktops, laptops, workstations, all-in-ones
- Servers1U–4U rackmount, blades, NAS, SAN, JBOD
- NetworkingSwitches, routers, firewalls, APs, controllers
- MobilePhones, tablets, e-readers, smart devices
- PeripheralsMonitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice
- StorageHDDs, SSDs, LTO tape, USB media, optical
- PowerUPS units, PDUs, cabling, batteries
- Crypto hardwareASIC miners, GPU rigs, immersion gear
Pickup & logistics
For volume engagements we coordinate secure pickup with palletization, sealed transport, and chain-of-custody documentation from your loading dock through to our processing floor. For smaller jobs we have drop-off and per-box pricing options.
What makes our process different
- We don't pretend. If your equipment has resale value, we tell you. If it doesn't, we tell you that too.
- Domestic processing. No e-waste containers heading to West Africa or Southeast Asia under our name.
- Documented downstream. Our recyclers publish their own certifications — we can hand those off to you for your audit file.
- Data destruction always. Any device with persistent storage gets NIST-aligned destruction before it leaves chain of custody.
From pickup to certificate — five clear steps.
Secure Pickup
Locked transport, signed manifest, GPS-tracked. Chain of custody starts at your loading dock.
Inventory & Audit
Every asset captured by make, model, and serial. Functional vs end-of-life flagged.
Wipe or Destroy
NIST 800-88 wipe for reusable drives; physical shred for failed media. Certificates per serial.
Refurbish or Recycle
Working hardware re-enters service. End-of-life equipment sorted into recoverable streams.
Closeout Report
Final tonnage, recovery rates, and downstream-processor certifications in one package.
Ready to retire a batch of equipment responsibly?
Tell us what you have and where it lives — we will scope pickup, processing, and reporting in writing.
Schedule Pickup