Recycling or disposing of IT hardware? Get paid first.

Most “disposal” and “recycling” of business IT hardware quietly throws away money. A recycler charges you for pickup or pays you scrap weight; a buyback desk pays you what the equipment is worth on the global resale market. If your gear still powers on — or even if it’s a mixed lot of working and dead units — there is usually value to recover before anything is scrapped.

Recycle, dispose, or sell — what’s the difference?

Recycling breaks equipment down for raw materials — you get scrap value at best. Disposal is simply getting it gone, often for a fee. Buyback recovers the resale value of hardware that still has a market, then recycles only the genuine remainder. For any business clearing more than a handful of devices, buyback almost always nets more — and still ends with responsible recycling of what’s truly end-of-life.

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What we buy vs. what we recycle

We buy the resaleable hardware in bulk — servers, GPU & AI systems, storage, networking, laptops & desktops and processors & memory — across the USA and Canada. Every data-bearing drive is sanitized to NIST SP 800-88. Only the boards, chassis and components that genuinely have no resale value are passed to certified recyclers. We don’t claim R2v3, e-Stewards or NAID AAA badges we don’t hold; for a fully certified, audited program see Maxicom.

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