Legacy Recycling

Whether you're recycling 500 network servers or just your ancient PC, Legacy Recycling is your affordable one-stop solution to electronics and computer recycling in Milwaukee, Racine, Chicago, all of Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois.We take every step to ensure that your discarded equipment doesn't end up in your local landfill or on a slow boat overseas to contaminate other countries.

Let us provide the following services for you:

• Pick-up Service
• Data Destruction
• Asset Inventory
• Convenient Drop off Locations
• Recycling Events
• Liability Protection
• ISO Certified refineries
• R2 Certified refineries

Legacy Recycling’s mission is to provide a cost effective way for our community residents and corporations to responsibly dispose of their old electronics. By recycling the technology of today we are all helping ensure green spaces for tomorrow.

We’re here for you and the environment

In today’s “disposable” world, the need for electronics recycling couldn’t be greater!Virtually everything we depend on electronically these days— from cell phones to computer monitors — is on a fast track to obsolescence from the minute we turn it on. But, once the “next best thing” comes along, you can’t just throw yesterday’s technology into the trash. Why? Because in Wisconsin & Illinois it’s against the law!

The Solution

Legacy Recycling was founded to help solve this critical problem. Whether you’re recycling 500 network servers or just you’re ancient PC we can handle the job. We offer corporate pickups, and being a WDNR registered collector of electronics we ensure that it doesn’t end up in your local landfill or shipped overseas.

Simple Process, Safe Results

Once we receive your discarded electronics, each unit is disassembled by our recycling technicians, who sort the component parts and determine the proper processing facility. Any data you request to be destroyed is handled only by authorized personnel, kept in a secure location, and either DOD wiped or physically shredded. All remaining components are then shipped to R2/ISO certified recyclers.

Green for the Environment and Your Wallet

All electronic recyclers are not created equal, especially when it comes to price. We offer extremely competitive and flexible rates for corporate pickups. We will also beat the advertised or quoted price of any local competitor!

Pickup Services

In today’s disposable world, everything we depend on electronically these days, from cell phones to computer monitors, is on the fast track to obsolescence from the minute we turn it on.  And, once the next best thing comes along, you can’t just throw yesterday’s technology in the trash, because in Wisconsin and Illinois it’s against the law.  Whether you’re recycling  500 network servers or just your ancient TV, Legacy Recycling is your affordable, one step solution to electronics recycling in Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois.  Just make one call or go online to schedule a convenient pick up at your company.  Our professional and courteous staff comes prepared with all the tools and equipment they need to handle any item you need removed.  They will come directly to your office, or warehouse loading dock and load up all your electronics to be recycled leaving you with a clean space.

We also offer these other recycling services:

• Asset Inventory
• Liability Protection
• Data Destruction
• PC Reimbursement
• Electronic Recyclables

Asset Inventory

In today’s business world it’s important for companies to stay organized.  We understand that keeping track of your assets is a crucial part of good record keeping.  We also know that whether you are a small business or a Fortune 500 company it takes time and resources to accomplish this.  At Legacy we can take that worry away with complete inventorying of your end of life IT assets.  Upon request Legacy can provide documentation of any or all of your equipment to be recycled.

Data Destruction

Whether it’s your home computer or an entire bank of servers for your company Legacy takes every precaution necessary to ensure your sensitive materials get handled in a safe, secure manner.  From start to finish we monitor all materials you wish to have destroyed by keeping them separated in a secure location that only authorized personnel have access to.  We also offer state of the art software erasing or physical destruction for all hard drives, tapes, diskettes, CD’s or anything else you would like destroyed.  While some companies make you pay more for physical destruction of your sensitive data Legacy offers you the choice of either Dept. of Defense level 5220.22-M/NISPOM 8-306 software erasing or physical shredding at no additional fee.  We don’t feel you should have to pay ridiculous prices to have the security you deserve.  Contact Legacy today to see how inexpensive piece of mind can be.

Electronic Recyclables

Some of the most commonly asked questions we get at Legacy are “What items do you take?” and “What happens to all this stuff once it leaves our office?”. Both are excellent questions that essentially deal with the same basic issue of keeping as much hazardous material out of the consumer waste stream as possible.  Research shows that extracting raw materials from the earth takes up more energy than utilizing recycled commodities.  So to help with this issue and to help answer these commonly asked questions we try and take as many different types of electronics as possible out of the waste stream.  What we generally say in the industry is that if it plugs into an outlet or runs on batteries we can recycle it for you.  Now, what happens to these items once they get to our warehouse is a pretty simple process but it is an essential step in the recycling chain of custody.  The recyclables get separated and categorized based on factors like size or commodity variation.  Items that are large have to get broken down further and items that consist of many different commodities have to get dismantled into their basic parts, such as, glass, plastic, copper, aluminum, etc.  Once the electronics have been broken down the commodities are then shipped to various processors and refineries around the Midwest.  At the refineries they get refined and purified into reusable raw materials where they can then be used to make new products.  These products then enter the consumer stream where they begin the cycle all over again.