From: Phoenix E-Waste Solutions LLC
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:32 AM
To: sfoss...@aea8.k12.ia.us
Once again this year during Earth Week, April 20th thru April 24th Phoenix
E-Waste Solutions LLC in Marshalltown Iowa will be holding an E-Cycling Drive
for Schools located throughout all of Iowa. This E-Cycling drive is geared
towards reducing and diverting toxic wastes from area landfills.
Recycling Fee Schedule:
CRT Computer Monitors: $6.00 Each
Flat Pannel Computer Monitors: $5.00 each
Desktop Printers: $2.00 each
PC's, Miscellanious items such as: Keyboards, mice, speakers, cables, overhead
projectors are accepted at no charge.
Collection will take place during the week of April 20th. Items must be
palletized and wrapped for trucking. Please contact Brett or Mike with Phoenix
E-Waste at 1-641-753-7200 or e-mail us at pesoluti...@iowatelecom.net to
schedule a pickup or for further questions.
I'm sure a few of you will have questions concerning e-waste recycled through
us. Hopefully I can cover them all in this short E-Mail
Q. What happens to our 'stuff' once it has arrived at your facility?
A. We break everything down into roughly 8 categories-
Computers
Computer Monitors
TV's
Printers
Miscellaneous Items (VCR's, Radio's, Recording Device's, typewriters, things
like this)
Keyboards
Mice
Flat Screen Monitors
>From there, each category is once again broke down completely by
de-manufacturing everything in house. By the time we are done, we have
roughly 16 commodities ready for shredding/smelting or re-use.
Q. I am concerned with the information that may be left on the hard drives even
though we did a complete wipe, what do you do to insure me that my information
is safe?
A. We take this very seriously. We start by using our in house Veridan Hard
drive de-gausser. This unit will 'fry' a hard drive in roughly 5 seconds, and
any drive up to 500mb. This physically destroys the media disk located inside
the drive. This deems the drive inoperable and unusable. From there, we cage
drives up and transport to an undisclosed shredding facility right here in
Iowa. We then recover the aluminum scrap for breakage.
Q. What happens to our CRT Glass? Do you recycle it on site, and are you
permitted to recycle these items?
A. As I noted before, we de-manufacture everything in house. CRT Tubes are
binned, weighed, and shipped to Doe Run, St Louis Mo for crushing and lead
extraction. We call this Glass-to-Glass recycling.