Electronics Recycling - Services

Asset Management - Recovering Value From Working Equipment

Valley City Environmental Services has a network of partners to place reusable electronic equipment back into service to maximize return for our customers. This network includes website sales, our warehouse store, bulk sales, eBay and corporate employee buyback programs:

• Website - Valley City offers used equipment for sale through our website for equipment that has been tested and the hard drive DOD wiped and reconfigured and is retail ready. Operating systems are not included; however we can provide open source options.
• Warehouse store: we operate a store at our Grand Rapids, Michigan facility everything from parts to whole machines are available.
  • Hours of operation are:
    • Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 6pm
    • Saturday from 8am to2 pm.
• Bulk - offering lots of equipment for purchase. Equipment is tested and in retail condition any exceptions are noted.
• EBay - smaller items and unique parts and pieces are sold through eBay.
• Corporate Employee Buyback Programs - allows larger customers to sell back equipment to their employees at reduced costs after asset tags have been removed and data is wiped from hard drives and storage devices.

Recycling obsolete equipment

Valley City Environmental Services is dedicated to safe, environmentally friendly, domestic recycling of electronics that have no resale value as whole equipment. We process all whole equipment at our facility and utilize best practices to disassemble equipment rather than using nonselective shredding to achieve cleaner separation of materials and additional resource recovery value.

We use both manual and automated processing to maximize the commodity value for recovered metals, plastics, glass and circuit boards. We provide domestic disassembly of all nonworking and outdated equipment with a zero landfill policy for all regulated material. Documentation and control of downstream vendors provides our customers’ added assurance that disassembled equipment in managed correctly.

Our trained staff disassembles and sorts material into recoverable categories of commodities ready to be turned back into the raw materials needed by manufacturers. Recovered materials include plastics that are used to make new covers and cases, metals used in many new products and recovered CRT glass used to make new monitors.

Valley City is the only Michigan electronics recycler that processes CRT glass. We have designed and implemented equipment to prepare this glass to be used as a raw material in the manufacture of new CRT tubes. This form of recycling is referred to as "Glass to Glass" recycling and is considered the highest form of recycling for this material.

Secure Data Elimination

Certification of Data Elimination - whether you're considering a DOD wipe or complete hard drive destruction we can provide certification of this process.

We work with each customer to understand your needs to provide the level of certainty you need to be compliant with your industry's needs: We work with health care and insurance providers for HIPPA compliance, Tier 1 OEM suppliers, manufacturers needing ISO documentation, banking and financial institutions with Gramm-Leach-Bliley requirements.

For equipment and or data containing devices where secure destruction is needed we provide onsite physical destruction and can arrange live or videotaped customer witnessed destruction.

Transportation and Logistics

Valley City has unmatched capability providing logistics and transportation services for customers. Our fleet of company-owned trucks and drivers provides chain of custody from the moment your equipment enters our recycling process for final disposition. We can move full van trailer loads or pickup that one skid at your facility depending on your needs.