ERI adjusts geographic footprint of its operations

Information technology asset disposition (ITAD) and electronics recycling services provider ERI, headquartered in Fresno, California, says it is adjusting its geographic footprint to accommodate demand, customer requests and steadily continued growth. The company says it serves every ZIP code in the U.S. and that the geographic realignment is designed to further streamline logistical accessibility and operational efficiency.

As part of the recalibration, ERI will open three larger ITAD and electronics recycling centers in 2024 and close its smallest facility in Aurora, Colorado. The locations of the new facilities will be announced later this year and will be positioned to enhance ERI’s national logistics and operations. 

In January, ERI announced the opening of its newest recycling facility in Goodyear, Arizona (near Phoenix). ERI says it chose the location to bring further balance to its national footprint and improve its southwest operations by growing the company’s regional footprint.

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ERI's Arizona facility is equipped with its proprietary, automated processing hardware and software known as SOAR, its ITAD remarketing and data destruction technology and end-of-life electronics recycling equipment.

That site marked ERI’s 13th operational location and ninth full-scale recycling facility when it was announced earlier this year. Its other recycling facilities are in Fresno; Aurora; Plainfield, Indiana; Holliston, Massachusetts; Badin, North Carolina; Lincoln Park, New Jersey; Flower Mound, Texas; and Sumner, Washington. With the upcoming closure of the Aurora site and the addition of the three sites, ERI will have 11 full-scale recycling sites in the U.S.

The company says it presently has the capacity to process more than 1 billion pounds of electronic scrap annually at its certified processing locations. 

“We’re excited about what the future holds on a national level for ERI,” says co-founder, Chairman and CEO John Shegerian. “With a steady increase in the need for our industry-leading ITAD and electronic waste recycling services, including battery collection and recycling and solar panel collection and recycling, we continue to grow exponentially and by repositioning our geographic footprint with our newest location in Arizona, the moving of our Colorado operation, and the soon-to-be-announced new locations will help us achieve greater balance as we serve customers’ specific needs throughout our great nation. We opened our Arizona facility to better service the southwest, and we’re completing that process by consolidating Colorado into the larger Arizona operation.”  

ERI has achieved carbon-neutral status at all its facilities nationwide, which the company says is a first for the electronics recycling industry. With its longstanding dedication to ESG, or environmental, social and governance, ERI also is the recipient of an overall “A” rating (the highest grade ever awarded to a company in ERI’s industry) from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circulytics tool, which measures progress toward a circular economy.