Go Green in April and May! BCD Electro and MTBC Team Up to Recycle Electronics
Do you have a cell phone the size of an ACME brick? Perhaps one of those free-standing scanners? Or a fax machine that could be a prop in the movie Office Space? Well, you’re in luck!
During the months of April and May, the MTBC will conduct a free recycling initiative for members. Just bring your used electronics to the Management Luncheons on April 9 and May 7or the Technical Luncheon on May 7 and we’ll have a truck from BCD Electro there to collect them. You may also bring them to the MTBC offices at 411 Belle Grove Dr., Richardson, TX. 75080. They can also come to your location for on-the-spot service.
You can rest easy as BCD assures complete data destruction either onsite or at their Dallas warehouse. And you’ll be doing the MTBC a favor, as part of the proceeds go to the MTBC membership campaign!
Not all electronic recyclers are the same. Family owned, BCD Electro has been in the business of recycling and remarketing electronics, medical, IT and industrial equipment since 1979. Located in Dallas, Texas, they have 80,000 square feet of security monitored warehouse to handle large volumes of material. They tailor programs to fit the individual needs of our clients.
Their capabilities include:
BCD Electro is licensed with the EPA (#TXR000066589), TCEQ (#87811), and certified ISO 9001/14001 (our recycling processes are audited continually; other organizations only issue advise and don’t actively audit).
Data destruction, including computer hard drives, to protect sensitive information and can include Certificates of Recycling (our clients include hospital, retail, and banking clients with strict identity theft requirements).
End of Lifecycle management campaign solutions that comply with all environmental and regulatory laws (including traceable of material throughout its disposal).
BCD’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, banks, credit unions, hospitals, Federal and Local governments.
For more information, contact BCD Electro at 2146304298
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Six ways to dramatically improve your Electronic recycling program
1. Effective communication between departments is imperative to utilize products. Can the shipping department use those old computers that the engineering department has outgrown? IT and facilities management organizations often do not engage or cooperate in the operation of the recycling program. Cross departmental reutilization is one of the easiest and most effective means of recycling. This can be as simple as timely emails to other departments listing available equipment or as complex as a complete intranet system.
2. Don’t forget the toner cartridges and batteries. Many companies are not making their employees aware that many other items besides the IT equipment have recyclable content. Batteries are hazardous waste also, so throwing them away is certainly very “un-green”. Batteries are actually very easy for a good electronics recycler to dispose of environmentally; they were one of the first types of electronics to be recycled. Toner cartridges and inkjet cartridges are also recyclable. A very easy way to get a program established for these items is to place recycling bins in the office area. Office supply houses have attractive recycling bins in many sizes and shapes to suit your needs.
3. Choose WEEE compliant manufacturers whenever possible. WEEE compliant products are manufactured to be easily repairable and recyclable by mandate. This is a European mandate that is affecting the manufacturers in the US. The WEEE and RoHs mandates of Europe are good things to track as they will impact manufacturing and recycling in the US profoundly. We are all waiting to see how this all will settle, but in the mean time it is extremely important to stay on top of the laws. WEEE products are identified by the crossed out trash can symbol.
4. Choose your recycling company carefully. There are many newcomers to the field of electronic recycling trying to make a quick buck, or quickly build a business to sell off to a large conglomerate. Your company will quickly lose its importance to a large company with venture capital money governing the way. Companies that are members of organizations like International Association of Electronic Recyclers (IAER), and particularly ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 companies follow strict compliance procedures. You are more likely to get fully compliant recycling from ISO companies, and good record keeping is an ISO requirement also.
5. Establish your thought processes. There are basically two recycling methods: shred and scrap, and re-use. BCD Electro is a strong proponent of re-use. It is a misnomer to think that the only way to keep proprietary electronic material out of the hands of criminals is to shred it. To re-use a product is a much higher form of recycling than to shred and scrap. When the material must be scrapped, dismantling by hand, though more costly, is a much cleaner method than shredding. Shredded material by its own process contains many constituent materials, and is not as pure as hand sorted material. As and example; disk drives contain copper, aluminum and pc boards that are easily recyclable when disassembled, but after they have been shredded the materials are all mixed and twisted together making them much less desirable. I visited a major military contractors manufacturing facility once that was hand disassembling the hard drives and selling the parts as scrap.
6. Finally, don’t settle for a cookie cutter recycling program. Each company has different recycling needs. Do you need a company that can recycle paper, foam packing and Styrofoam as well as your electronics? Can your recycler help you with hazardous materials also? Consignment revenue sharing agreements are the best for long dollar returns, but is your company uncomfortable with consignment at this time? Do you need a cash offer for your high value recyclable materials? Do you need a recycler that can come to your location and inventory the product before it leaves your building?
Just ask!
Prepared by:
Bob Harris
President
BCD Electro
214 630 4298
www.bcdelectro.com
2. Don’t forget the toner cartridges and batteries. Many companies are not making their employees aware that many other items besides the IT equipment have recyclable content. Batteries are hazardous waste also, so throwing them away is certainly very “un-green”. Batteries are actually very easy for a good electronics recycler to dispose of environmentally; they were one of the first types of electronics to be recycled. Toner cartridges and inkjet cartridges are also recyclable. A very easy way to get a program established for these items is to place recycling bins in the office area. Office supply houses have attractive recycling bins in many sizes and shapes to suit your needs.
3. Choose WEEE compliant manufacturers whenever possible. WEEE compliant products are manufactured to be easily repairable and recyclable by mandate. This is a European mandate that is affecting the manufacturers in the US. The WEEE and RoHs mandates of Europe are good things to track as they will impact manufacturing and recycling in the US profoundly. We are all waiting to see how this all will settle, but in the mean time it is extremely important to stay on top of the laws. WEEE products are identified by the crossed out trash can symbol.
4. Choose your recycling company carefully. There are many newcomers to the field of electronic recycling trying to make a quick buck, or quickly build a business to sell off to a large conglomerate. Your company will quickly lose its importance to a large company with venture capital money governing the way. Companies that are members of organizations like International Association of Electronic Recyclers (IAER), and particularly ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 companies follow strict compliance procedures. You are more likely to get fully compliant recycling from ISO companies, and good record keeping is an ISO requirement also.
5. Establish your thought processes. There are basically two recycling methods: shred and scrap, and re-use. BCD Electro is a strong proponent of re-use. It is a misnomer to think that the only way to keep proprietary electronic material out of the hands of criminals is to shred it. To re-use a product is a much higher form of recycling than to shred and scrap. When the material must be scrapped, dismantling by hand, though more costly, is a much cleaner method than shredding. Shredded material by its own process contains many constituent materials, and is not as pure as hand sorted material. As and example; disk drives contain copper, aluminum and pc boards that are easily recyclable when disassembled, but after they have been shredded the materials are all mixed and twisted together making them much less desirable. I visited a major military contractors manufacturing facility once that was hand disassembling the hard drives and selling the parts as scrap.
6. Finally, don’t settle for a cookie cutter recycling program. Each company has different recycling needs. Do you need a company that can recycle paper, foam packing and Styrofoam as well as your electronics? Can your recycler help you with hazardous materials also? Consignment revenue sharing agreements are the best for long dollar returns, but is your company uncomfortable with consignment at this time? Do you need a cash offer for your high value recyclable materials? Do you need a recycler that can come to your location and inventory the product before it leaves your building?
Just ask!
Prepared by:
Bob Harris
President
BCD Electro
214 630 4298
www.bcdelectro.com
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