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Local business owner Steve Hiday has been very successful with his computer/technology support business in Lawrence called the Mobile Geeks. But like most entrepreneurs, Hiday discovered a need that wasn’t being fulfilled and is launching a new venture: Green Wave Computer Recycling.
“Every business I go into there is a ‘bone yard’ of old computers, monitors, and other electronic equipment that they are afraid to throw away,” Hiday explains. “Most people understand that computers are full of harmful toxins so a landfill is not a good resting home for them.”
After a year of planning and testing, Green Wave Computer Recycling takes old electronic equipment, primarily computers and monitors, and disassembles them for safe recycling. Hard drives are removed and run through a grinder to insure no one recycles your personal information. Large bins full of scrap plastic, metal, aluminum, glass and other materials sit in Hiday’s warehouse down off of Thunderbird Road near Pendleton Pike. Unlike other “IT disposal” companies, Hiday’s crew actually disassembles all their electronic components on-site.
“Some of the larger businesses in our space just load up a truck with old electronics and ship them off to some large processing plant where they are put into a landfill anyways. We go through each piece and literally disassemble each component.”
Hiday got his start five years ago while working as a computer repair technician at a local electronics retailer.
“I literally had $40 to my name, so I made up some flyers for the Mobile Geeks and posted them all over Castleton.”
Several phone calls and referrals later, Hiday had a successful on-site computer support business providing everything from virus support and protection to websites. His latest recycling venture helps the environment and augments his existing Mobile Geeks business nicely.
“We take basically anything that plugs into the wall,” says Hiday.
If you have some old computers cluttering your garage, televisions, printers, or if you own a business with one of those infamous ‘boneyards’, Call Green Wave Computer Recycling at 317-627-0778 or stop by their offices at 5841 Thunderbird Road, Suite G. There is a fee per piece for their service, but Hiday explains that in some cases components have recycled value and may offset their fees.
If you are a resident of Hamilton County you can take your old electronic devices and most everything else for free to the Household Hazardous Waste Facility on Pleasant St Noblesville
Computer Buyback and Recycling Programs aid in reducing the amount of electronics in landfills by refurbishing for reuse or by safely recycling it. Offering recycling, trade in, and buyback programs offer customers a simple way to receive cash for their unwanted technology equipment or, if there is no value, recycle it.
Making solutions that make it easy for customers to go green. Computer Buyback and Recycling programs reduce environmental impact by providing a convenient way for customers to responsibly recycle data center equipment. Environmentally, RICOM is committed to offering products and services that are environmentally practical throughout their life cycles.
Remanufacture and reuse is only one component of the environmental lifecycle. A complete approach to the environment considers all aspects of a product's lifecycle and footprint of a product. Systems that can be upgraded using refurbished components extend the end date of their use. RICOM offers refurbished components in new products and packaging as an alternative of cost savings.
Hardware asset recovery has value with used equipment Trade-in/trade-up, donation and off lease programs. With 20 years experience in IT sales, refurbishing and recycling operations, green is good business. Our vast portfolio of blade, virtualized configurations as well as energy star certified products cuts power costs, and consolidates data center real estate. Recycling computers rather than depositing them in landfills or shipping them off for other nations has risk of sensitive data. RICOM’s partnered with company’s assisting in such disk data sanitation services.
RICOM extends environmental technology solutions saving customers money. Electronic products make up the fastest growing segment of our landfill waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2007, more than 63 million computers in the United States were traded in for replacements, or simply thrown out. Discarded computers don't just take up space in a landfill. Careless computer disposal spread toxic wastes of more than 100 chemicals leaching in the soil. Be responsible, reuse certified refurbished equipment, and recycle your aging data center equipment that is cost effective both business and environmentally.
Green Asset Recovery Solutions, contact RICOM shopricom.com
If there's any life in an item you no longer want, you could display it on http://www.goodnewsforpolarbears.org which would give others a chance to see if they wanted it BEFORE it goes to Green Wave and/or landfill. Who's going to be first in your area to list an item and so start a local GNFPB community?