Why We Recommend Valley City Electronic Recycling
Electronic waste recycling has become increasingly important as we use more electronic devices in our day-to-day lives.
Keeping e-waste out of landfills is critical, as electronic devices contain toxic substances and heavy metals such as chromium, cadmium, mercury and lead that can seep into the soil, contaminating the air and waterways.
Because we contribute a lot of electronic waste as a managed service provider, we ensure that waste is recycled responsibly. Since 2019, we’ve been using Kentwood-based Valley City Electronic Recycling to recycle our electronic waste, which can include servers, switches, firewalls, printers, phones, desktops, laptops, docking stations, monitors, keyboards, mice and power supplies.
Why Valley City? There are three reasons we partner with this local organization.
1. Secure and Professional
Above all else, Valley City is reliable in ensuring any data is completely erased and unrecoverable when customers hand over their old devices to be recycled.
The recycler understands data security needs and how to ensure compliance with the requirements of various industry regulations such as HIPAA, ISO documentation or Gramm-Leach-Bliley rules.
Valley City also offers on-site, recorded and customer-witnessed hard drive shredding to securely destroy sensitive data, as well as secure erasure using Department of Defense-approved wipe patterns.
“Valley City ensures your electronic waste is recycled sustainably. And after the data is deleted, devices that still have value are repurposed rather than added to a landfill.”
2. Environmentally Friendly
Valley City ensures your electronic waste is recycled sustainably. And after the data is deleted, devices that still have value are repurposed rather than added to a landfill.
According to the organization’s website, “Adhering to our zero landfill policy, we are committed to industry best practices for electronic recycling in order to recoup maximum commodity value and a cleaner separation of the products we recover and accept into our facility.”
No shortcuts are taken to increase profits, and Valley City does everything it can to ensure no electronics end up in landfills.
The organization does this as a Certified B Corporation, or B Corp, which is a certification granted to for-profit businesses that meet “the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.”
3. Cost-effective
Lastly, Valley City is inexpensive and reliable.
The organization charges a visit fee, a recycling fee based on weight of the equipment and fees to erase data on hard drives, but it’s incredibly cost-effective and worth it to ensure heavy metals don’t end up in landfills.
Cost shouldn’t determine whether electronics are responsibly recycled, but Valley City ensures it doesn’t break the bank.
Valley City’s services ensure that electronic recycling is hassle-free and affordable. This haul-away service is inexpensive and valuable, helping you cost-effectively avoid the major headache of disposing of old electronics securely and environmentally responsibly.
Valley City has been an excellent partner for the past five years due to its secure, environmentally friendly, professional and cost-effective business practices.
Want to Learn More About Responsible Recycling?
Contact us here to get more information about how your obsolete IT can be sustainably recycled.
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