Our Recycling Process:

Suburban Miners simply does it better. We have made a substantial financial investment in education, training and equipment to create a better way to recycle and re-use, one that makes a lot of common sense and is sustainable over the long haul.

When you bring your recyclable materials to Suburban Miners main facility or to one of our quick drop locations, you will have the peace of mind knowing that your items go through the following processes and procedures:

Unless you speak with one of our representatives and have a special request, this is what happens after you drop off your items for recycling:

#1. Security Inspection: All items are carefully inspected initially for data containing disks, media and hard drives. All found items are physically removed from computers and electronics and placed into a secure locked cage. This ensures physical separation from any on site visitors and protects your data from theft. Most hard drives are destroyed within minutes of your arrival and if requested are automatically shredded on our ameri-shred hard drive shredding equipment. You may witness this process upon request. It is common for us to invite you to watch the process if you have a few minutes to spare. If you would prefer us to use our hardware wiping solution and reuse the hard drives then your drives are segregated and protected in a locked cage and are guarded by our alarm system and our video monitoring security system. Once your hard drives are wiped they are then placed into our reuse stream for sales to refurbishers within the USA.

#2. Re-Use: All non data containing items are then inspected for resale value. If any whole item has any resale value it is sorted and separated and placed into our reuse stream.

#3. Dismantling for re-use: Items containing resalable items within them are further dismantled and redeployed back into the marketplace for re-use.

#4. Remanufacturing: Many times we can take items from multiple donations and combine them to build or repair a broken item. Laptop computers are a good example of how we do this. We stockpile non working laptops and combine multiple broken units until a new working unit emerges from the parts. We do this whenever we can and where it makes economic sense. We also sell broken items as-is through our multiple sales channels for parts and through this we can place many things back into the marketplace that you might not have otherwise thought possible.

#5. Recycling: Anything left without a resale value is then completely dismantled, sorted and placed into our recycling bins for sales to our certified downstream recycling vendors.

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