Electronic Recycling

Recycle America Alliance L.L.C. (RAA) has announced a new service affiliate to enhance its delivery of electronics recycling services in the southeastern United States.

Quicksilver Recycling Services, Tampa, Fla., will provide de-manufacturing services for materials collected or managed by Recycle America Alliance under its eCycling service in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Both parties will work together on marketing commodities to end markets.

"This is another important milestone in our effort to sustainably build America’s leading national infrastructure for electronics recycling services," Kevin McCarthy, director of Electronics Recycling for Waste Management Inc., majority owner of Recycle America Alliance, says. "Our association with Quicksilver combines a highly regarded local entrepreneur with Recycle America Alliance’s national reach and capabilities."

"We are excited about this joint effort with Recycle America Alliance to build quality infrastructure for e-waste recycling in Florida," Mike Flynn, Quicksilver Recycling Services vice president, says.

Quicksilver, founded in 1998, operates a comprehensive de-manufacturing facility for end-of-life electronics and surplus electronics equipment.

Recycle America Alliance’s eCycling service has operations in more than 20 states. RAA has approximately 3,300 employees; handles more than 8 million tons of commodities per year; operates 80 recycling plants; and offers marketing services for more than 190 locations in the U.S. and Canada.

In addition, RAA operates seven container processing facilities, one plastics recycling facility and four electronics recycling facilities. RAA processes electronics collected at more than 65 recycling or disposal facilities nationwide at four facilities in Phoenix, Houston, Minneapolis and Kernersville, N.C.

RAA operates a nonferrous scrap metal facility in Long Branch, N.J., and has service contracts with Paramount, California-based E-Recycling of Southern California and ElectroniCycle in Gardner, Mass.

The state of Colorado’s Governor’s Office of Energy Management and Conservation (OEMC) has produced a report that summarizes 15 statewide computer collection events the department co-sponsored last year.

The report, "Colorado Computer Recycling Collection Events," summarizes the issues, efforts and data discovered while planning and executing these events.

"OEMC wanted to help Colorado citizens and businesses better understand the implications of a growing waste stream by examining market conditions, infrastructure needs and community interest," Rick Grice, director of OEMC, says.

Approximately 1,000 households and 200 small businesses and local governments participated in the OEMC-sponsored computer collection events. The collections gathered more than 350,000 pounds of unwanted computer equipment for recycling and reuse.

OEMC helped establish relationships between vendors and local communities. OEMC’s competitive bid process selected two vendors to provide collection and recycling services. Waste-Not Recycling of Pierce, Colo., managed four events. Recycle America Alliance eCycling Services, the subsidiary of Houston-based Waste Management Inc. that handles electronics recycling, managed 10 collection events.