Benefits of E-Cycling

E-waste Recycling Eliminates Health and Environment Hazards
The major benefit of e-waste recycling is the elimination of the health and environment hazards caused by disposal of untreated e-waste in landfills.

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates more than four million tons of e-waste are hitting landfills each year, with the numbers compounding every year. Much of this e-waste contains significant quantities of non-biodegradable toxic substances. Computers, servers, and other IT hardware contain mercury, lead, barium, arsenic, antimony, and cadmium. Flat-panel light displays contain mercury and CRT monitors contain lead.

When e-waste finds its way into landfills such toxic metals leech out and contaminate the soil and water, causing health problems and polluting the atmosphere. Incinerating e-waste produces volatilized heavy metals that can cause an even more significant public health hazard.

Recycling e-waste helps eliminate its propensity to cause health and environmental hazards. Recycling diverts nearly 70 million tons of e-waste away from landfills and incinerators every year.

A major health benefit of recycling relates to reduction of pollution. Mining and processing minerals emit 1.5 tons of toxic emissions into the air and water every year. Through recycling and end of life management reusable metals, plastics and glass are recommissioned into the market as raw materials. Circuit boards are ground and the precious metals are extracted for re-use thereby keeping it out of the landfill sites. E-waste recycling contributes to eliminating ten major categories of air pollutants and eight major categories of water pollutants.

The latest figures estimate that the annual quantity of e-waste recycled in the USA reduces greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing nearly 25 million cars from the road.

The amount of electronic products discarded globally has skyrocketed recently, with 20-50 million tons generated every year. If such a huge figure is hard to imagine, think of it like this - if the estimated amount of e-waste generated every year would be put into containers on a train it would go once around the world!

Electronic waste (e-waste) now makes up five percent of all municipal solid waste worldwide, nearly the same amount as all plastic packaging, but it is much more hazardous.

E-waste is now the fastest growing component of the municipal solid waste stream because people are upgrading their mobile phones, computers, televisions, audio equipment and printers more frequently than ever before. Mobile phones and computers are causing the biggest problem because they are replaced most often.

Our clients want to know that their assets will be disposed of in an environmentally safe manner. We welcome all of our customers and prospective customers to inspect and audit our system of waste disposal.

• We try to save every item possible for resale and reuse. This is not only more profitable for Orser and our customers; it is the most environmentally economical way to recycle. The energy needed to prepare electronic products for reuse is only 1/3 of what is needed to recycle for the raw materials.
• Any unit that can not be salvaged for resale will be sent to downstream EPA registered recycling partners.They are able to take everything we deem as scrap electronics. They will sort, chop and separate to recover all the raw materials to be reused for manufacturing of new products. This guarantees 100% zero landfill policy for our client's electronic scrap.
• Regulatory Compliance- At Orser Technical we have the knowledge of government regulations to ensure that all our clients' assets are handled with 100% legal compliance.
• Client Indemnification - To further protect our customers, Orser assumes environmental responsibility for each package of customer products that we receive by giving the customer a product liability transfer document with each set of final paperwork. We take all the liability away from our clients. At Orser we go the extra mile for the environment because we believe in being environmentally responsible. We do more than just dispose of our inventory and scrap electronics safely; we have an internal recycling program for our used office materials and waste as well.