At Happy Stan’s Recycling Services, we do the primary processing of electronic waste by collecting, dismantling, and sorting the electronic equipment. The process begins at our resource recovery facility in Port Coquitlam where electronic equipment is received from our pick-up trucks or from people dropping off.
Electronic equipment is separated into seven main categories
- Monitors and TV’s
- Keyboards
- Mice
- Printers and fax machines
- Computer unites
- Small miscellaneous equipment
- Large miscellaneous equipment
The above categories are then sent to inventory for future processing or to their designated working stations for dismantling.
To ensure all electronic equipment is properly recycled, we manually dismantle each piece of equipment into three separate categories:
Non Hazardous Material
- Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals
- Plastic
- Wood
- Garbage (i.e.: Foam, Rubber)
- Non-leaded glass
Electronic Scrap
- Circuit boards
- Power supplies
- Insulated wire
Potentially Hazardous Material
- Cathode Ray Tubes
- Batteries
- LED displays
- Plasma Displays
- Mercury Bulbs
- Mercury Switches
Once dismantled, all material is separated into the above categories and then either baled, or stored in Gaylord boxes. Each box, or bale is weighed, recorded and then placed in our covered shipping area for quality control.
- Non hazardous materials are sent to local brokers for resale or safe disposal.
- Electronic Scrap is sent to a smelter within North America for the recovery of metals.
- Potentially hazardous materials are sent to a domestic lead smelter for the recover of lead, and energy.
Special Note:
To ensure privacy of information, all hard drives are manually dismantled and all internal discs are removed and cracked to ensure destruction. If requested in advance, a certificate of destruction can be provided with before and after pictures of the hard drives being destroyed.
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