At your office, you are surrounded by electronic and digital devices. Over time you get new equipment, and the question of what to do with the old unusable devices comes up. This electronic waste (or eWaste) isn’t just a compilation of old plastic glass and metals. There are harmful toxins, hazardous substances and dangerous materials being tossed into the environment when these get thrown out. Lead, mercury, and arsenic is absorbed into the soil and air.
Whether they are still operable or not, these monitors, computers, fax machines, cartridges, and copiers have options for life after an office death.
There are things you can do to get them ready for a safe burial and/or resurrection: First deactivate any property office tags. You can then erase data to avoid identity theft or other pesky casualties of getting rid of equipment with years of information stored on it. Often local facilities are set up for specific recycled waste such as office equipment. They can pick up each item as long as it weights less than 50 pounds, and make sure it is properly sorted to avoid harmful exposure to the elements that would otherwise have been possible through other means of expenditure.
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