M&K Recovery

M & K Recovery Group is an R2–certified, veteran-owned small business providing precious metal refining and electronics recycling services with operations in North Andover, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas. Management's refining, recycling and reclamation expertise spans 35 years, and includes experience with both U.S. and European facilities. The company’s asset management philosophy is focused on sustainable solutions which protect the environment and maximizing asset recovery.

Company

Experience

Drawing upon management’s three decades of experience in the refining and electronics recycling industry, M&K offers a unique suite of asset recovery services. Core competencies include reverse logistics, IT asset and electronic waste disposition, remarketing, electronics recycling, precious metals refining, and data destruction. Our flexible solutions leverage technology, processes, and customized programs to provide services focused upon delivering exceptional results. Product knowledge and processing expertise combined with the broadest spectrum of in-house recycling capabilities, including state-of-the-art chemical refining, shredding, and testing, allow us to maximize your ROI.

Compliance

Environmental stewardship is the foundation of M&K’s asset management and electronics recycling program. Our web-based process controls system, AssetTrak, offers comprehensive tracking and downstream reporting, ensuring our partners environmental compliance and final disposition of all materials remarketed, recycled, or refined. This auditable inventory management program provides complete visibility of every serialized asset and scrap commodity as it moves through each secure phase of processing. These compliance reports document that your product has been recycled and accounted for, indemnifying customer’s against regulatory liability for improper disposal.

Process

Our inventory and management control services include site pick-up, logistics, testing and auditing of assets, and electronics recycling. Processing of equipment and commodities is conducted in DEP-permitted facilities. M&K’s primary objective is protecting your organization from noncompliance liability by executing and managing secure, compliant, end-of-life IT Asset Disposition, electronics recycling, and Precious Metal Refining. Sensitive electronic wastes are properly recycled and product is accounted for, eliminating the potential risks of improper disposal. No hazardous waste is landfilled.

Facilities

M&K's R2 certified 35,000 square ft. headquarters, located in North Andover, MA, is a state-of-the-art processing and refining operation, licensed by a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Recycling Permit. In Austin, TX we operate a R2 certified 15,000 square ft. facility which is a licensed Recycling Operation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Our operations are under 24–hour, taped camera surveillance, and access-controlled. Facilities are outfitted with shredding equipment for destruction of hard drives, tape and optical media, circuit boards, IC's and other proprietary surface-mount components.

Services

IT Asset Disposition

M&K is committed to protecting your IT assets. Our proven methods ensure safe and proper disposition of retired equipment. M&K’s online inventory management system, Asset Trak, allows for the strategic management of retired IT assets, whether for re-deployment or disposal. Recycling of IT and electronics involves testing systems and subassemblies for refurbishment and remarketing.

Precious Metal Refining

Ownership delivers on over three decades of refining expertise. M&K distinguishes itself with the use of a chemical-based refining process that maximizes the recovery of precious metal scrap materials. Our state-of-the-art North Andover, MA headquarters is certified by a Massachusetts DEP B4 Level III Hazardous Waste Recycling Permit. “Green” chemical processing of gold, silver, and platinum group metals is recovered from encapsulated, clad, and plated material. A cyanide strip method is employed for gold-plated scrap products, with recovery and treatment of solutions also performed. Our processes result in zero discharge, emissions-free, efficient and “clean” recovery, along with quicker turnaround.

M&K Recovery Group offers more than thirty years of experience in precious metal refining and reclamation. Our environmentally sustainable refining process is efficient both in its recovery of precious metal scrap materials and its turnaround time, providing increased value to our customers. We are committed to maximizing the recovery of precious metal scrap materials while also upholding the most stringent environmental standards and satisfying our customers.

Electronics Recycling

Partnering with recycling and asset recovery experts is crucial. M&K ownership delivers on three decades of experience in the electronics recycling and refining industry. It is widely recognized that the world’s natural resources are scarce, finite, and quite costly to acquire. As a result, there is increased emphasis on the recycling and conservation of these critical resources. “Going Green” means implementing organizational strategies that will properly manage and reduce your waste streams.

The electronics recycling business has developed in response to a critical and rapidly spreading problem in the developed world: electronic waste. Electronic waste is the fastest­ growing segment of the waste stream and comprises seventy percent of the overall toxic waste found in landfills. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports indicate that approximately 2.4 million tons of electronic waste was disposed of in the country in 2010. Computers, which contain up to eight pounds of toxic materials such as lead, mercury, and cadmium, contribute the greatest amount of electronic waste.

When lead, mercury, and other toxic wastes are improperly disposed of, they pose various health and environmental risks, including risks to workers and increased pollution in the form of dioxins, carcinogens, heavy metals, and greenhouse gases.

M&K Recovery Group has offered a solution to this urgent problem since 1995. The expertise of our employees as well as that of our long­standing, downstream partners allows our customers to recycle their electronic media in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. Through careful electronics recycling, refining, and remarketing processes, we address a very real problem and fulfill an urgent, worldwide need.

Resource Optimization:

• Copper
• Aluminum
• Steel
• Plastics
• Paper
• PET
• Cardboard

Focus Materials:

• Printed Circuit Boards
• Batteries
• CRT/LCD glass
• Mercury