
About Us
Worldwide, about 40 million tons of electronic waste is generated every year. This is the equivalent of throwing away 800 laptops every second—waste that’s creating toxic runoff and affecting local wildlife. We’re on a mission to forge a better path… one that makes it easy on you AND the earth.
Accredited Electronics Recycler
R2:2013 RESPONSIBLE RECYCLING©
1GreenPlanet is R2:2013 certified: this means we implement policies and procedures to manage used and end-of-life electronics equipment, components and materials. Initiated by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the R2 Standard is the result of a successful collaboration between public, private, and non-profit sectors.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT
ISO 14001:2015 Compliant
This specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance. ISO 14001:2015 is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability. It helps an organization achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system, which provide value for the environment, the organization itself and interested parties.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT
ISO 45001:2018 Compliant
This specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance. ISO 45001:2018 helps an organization to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system.

Certified, Secure, Compliant
Ready to meet your regulatory needs
We work with our customers to meet their particular industry’s certification and compliance requirements. Contact us to learn more.


Our Process

On-site Collection
Our team will come to your location and pick up your end-of-life equipment or your recycling collection bins or totes. Our drivers and team are trained to handle your assets and data and keep them secure every step of the way.
Secure Transport
Transporting sensitive electronic recyclables requires safe and secure handling and our team of trained asset handlers have what it takes. We take care of the logistics of pick up and delivery to ensure that the ewaste or electronics arrive safely.
Sorting
Because e-waste contains many different types of materials, including plastics, glass, metals and more, there are several steps to recover the resources efficiently. Electronic items are first manually sorted. Some items are shredded to reduce them in size so that the reusable material within them is efficiently recovered. Items that should not be shredded or reduced, such as fluorescent lights, batteries, or hazardous materials.
Depending on the type of materials being recycled, there could be different outcomes: Refurbishing, Data Destruction, or Dismantle and Process
Remarket/Reuse
The data from these electronics are securely removed first, then the products are reintroduced into the marketplace, thus keeping them out of landfills as long as possible.
Data bearing devices
For computers, servers, tablets and phones – anything that carries your data – it’s crucial to properly destroy personal and confidential information, while keeping the products out of the landfill or in nefarious hands.
Secure data destruction
There are different methods and levels of destruction available, depending on your requirements as well as what is in compliance with specific industry standards. Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology method of sanitizing hard drives and electronic media removes the data completely from a readable drive. Damaged drives are shredded.
Dismantle & Process
Electronic items are reduced in size by shredding or crushing which breaks them down into fragments which can then be separated further. Magnets are used to remove steel and iron. Other methods are used to separate non-metallic materials from other metals like aluminum, brass, or copper. Plastic and glass are separated by using water. CRTs (cathode ray tubes), which contain toxins like lead, are handled in a separate process to avoid releasing these toxins into the environment or exposing them to humans and animals.
Recycle
Once properly separated and cleaned, each of these types of materials are then sold or downstreamed to other recyclers so that they can be made into new products.
Reporting
The last step after each of these methods is a complete reporting of the assets that were removed from the business, how and when they were processed, and a certificate of recycling or destruction is provided.
Zero Waste
Zero Landfill
