ERI opens Arizona facility

Fresno, California-headquartered ERI, an integrated information technology and electronic asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, has opened a new recycling facility in Goodyear, Arizona. The new site is the company’s 13th operational location and ninth full-scale recycling facility. 

The company’s other recycling facilities are in Fresno; Aurora, Colorado; Plainfield, Indiana; Holliston, Massachusetts; Badin, North Carolina; Lincoln Park, New Jersey; Flower Mound, Texas; and Sumner, Washinton.

Located within the Goodyear Gateway South complex, an industrial park just north of the Phoenix Goodyear Airport, ERI says the new facility is fully operational. 

ERI co-founder, Chairman and CEO John Shegerian says the location is “strategically ideal.” He adds that it “will help us achieve even greater balance as we serve every zip code in the United States while providing us with a convenient location to service the robust and growing Southwest market.”

Shegerian continues, “E-waste remains the fastest growing waste stream in the world today, and the need to responsibly recycle electronics has never been greater. We are expanding our operational scale to accommodate that need.” 

ERI says the new facility will serve as its southwestern recycling operations hub.

Shegerian tells Recycling Today, “Our new Goodyear, Arizona, facility will be fully equipped with ERI’s proprietary, automated processing hardware and software known as SOAR, alongside our state-of-the-art ITAD remarketing and data destruction technology and end-of-life e-waste recycling equipment.” 

He says the site will be able to process data-bearing and nondata-bearing assets, ensuring data destruction while also reducing environmental impacts and maximizing asset recovery value. 

Shegerian says ERI’s proprietary tracking software, Optech also will be used at the site. “Optech tracks every IT asset from the moment it arrives at ERI to its final disposition and provides 100 percent transparency into ERI’s operations through an easy-to-use client portal and mobile application.” 

When asked about the site’s processing capacity, Shegerian says, “The sky is the limit. Millions of pounds of electronics and IT assets will be processed every year through this new facility. We are very optimistic that this facility, thanks to its strategic geographic location and market demand, will fast become one of our three or four busiest facilities nationwide, and we have bullish projections that it will help drive our overall growth significantly."   

“It’s exciting to welcome ERI, a reputable and truly sustainable organization, as it opens its impressive new Arizona facility,” says Paco Cerda, owner of Paragon Business Equipment and board member of Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce. “It’s rewarding to have the nation’s leader in recycling electronics right here in Goodyear, along with all the strategic value and green jobs it is bringing to our region—another great indication of the bright future for business in the Southwest Valley!” 

ERI recently announced that it has achieved carbon-neutral status at all its facilities nationwide, including the Arizona facility.   

The company adds that it has received 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.