e-End

Steve and Arleen Chafitz are electronics pioneers, responsible for introducing some of the world’s most innovative personal electronic devices to American consumers in early 1970’s.

While personal electronic devices created a global communications and information revolution, they also became obsolete at increasingly rapid rates. e-Waste has become the fastest growing segment of the waste stream, with an EPA estimate of over 200 million old TVs, computers, cell phones and other electronics stored in US homes and offices. The result, Steve now says, “It’s a potential environmental nightmare of a major magnitude whose impact is just beginning to be assessed”.

“When we saw how much electronic equipment was being discarded carelessly, it was shocking how it was hurting the environment and it was evident that the opportunity was there to be at the beginning of a new business wave”, Arleen says. “It gives us a chance to give back. We helped create some of these products and we want to make sure that they don’t hurt the environment — because we don’t have another planet to go to.”

Steve and Arleen are recognized as two of the most significant leaders of the consumer electronic revolution, which occurred in the early 1970’s. They established Chafitz Electronic Specialty Center, a company in Rockville, MD which became one of the nation’s leading retailers for consumer electronics. Their company was one of the first to introduce numerous new consumer products using integrated circuits which have defined the Information Era, including the first pocket calculators, the first digital watches, the first video games, the first personal computers, the first consumer VCRs and video cameras, and even the first Sony Walkman. They have also been credited with pioneering electronic games employing the early advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as electronic chess and Backgammon. Their electronic chess game Boris developed a following among chess enthusiasts.

By the late 70s, Steve and Arleen had built a very successful mail-order business that was written about in Business Week, Forbes, the Washington Post, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and others. Steve’s penchant for developing ground-breaking new products and his ability to form warm personal relationships with customers won him an international following.

“The basic thing is you have to be responsive to the needs of the customer, you have to know a lot more than your clients about what you’re doing, and you have to be transparent”, Arleen says. “If they have a problem, you say, ‘that’s not a problem; we’re here to fix it.’ My philosophy has always been to give our customers service above and beyond what they get with others and they always know that if we tell them we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it”.

Steve and Arleen are applying the same personal touch and visionary thinking to e-End. Coming full circle, from introducing revolutionary electronic products, They recognize the importance of good stewardship in managing and recycling the “end of life” stages of these same products. Their success is, and has always been, based on superb service and developing a team with purpose and a “passion for doing it right”.

e-End is firmly committed to managing the environmental, health and safety performance of our products, processes, services and employees as an integral part of our business operations. We will do so by adhering to the following principles at all levels and functions of our organization and at all operating locations:

• We will pursue environmental protection and pollution prevention practices as evidenced by our environmental aspects, targets, objectives, programs and operating procedures.
• We are committed to the prevention of injury and ill health resulting from our products, services and practices.
• We will comply with all environmental, health and safety regulatory requirements and industry guidelines.
• We will apply a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) protocol to all policies and procedures throughout the organization and ensure conformance to and continual improvement of our environmental, health and safety management system through identification of non-conformances, internal audits, management reviews and third party registration to ISO Standard 14001, OHSAS 18001 and R2:2013.
• We will document, maintain, and communicate our environmental, health and safety policies to our employees, contractors, vendors, customers and community.
• We will review and manage our environmental aspects, health and safety risks and their associated improvement targets, objectives and programs to reflect and incorporate new technologies, emerging issues, public concerns and changing regulatory requirements.
• We will recycle every possible item and its components in the most effective manner possible under the reuse, recover, and disposal hierarchy.
• We will follow audited procedures to thoroughly vet downstream vendors for adherence to R2 practices on an annual basis.
• We will not ship nor utilize any downstream vendor who ships focus materials to a non-OECD country that has laws prohibiting such imports, and as per the R2 requirements e-End exercises care to assure that legal requirements related to export, import, and transportation of those Focus Materials are followed.

Choose e-End for electronics recycling
When it comes to end-of-life equipment, e-End strictly adheres to internationally recognized Responsible Recycling (R2) standard to reduce electronics waste. We also strive to exceed the EPA’s standards for solid waste recycling and adhere to a zero-landfill policy for e-waste.If it plugs into a wall, uses batteries, or looks like it could have done either at one time, we can most likely recycle it!e-End gives everyone the opportunityto empty their storage rooms of unused electronics and have them 100% recycled.ITAD- Contact us to learn how we can assist with your ITAD requirements. We will purchase various IT assets.

Do we need to recycle our computers?
Many people are asking these questions “What do I do with my old computers?” or “Where do I dispose our old computers?” According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency electronic waste is one of the facing growing segments of the municipal waste stream. Companies could face large fines as well as huge damage to their reputation if they don’t recycle their unused IT Assets in a proper and responsible way. We, at e-End, offer you customized IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Solutions that suit your needs, by quickly providing an affordable solution and a fast schedule to pick up all of your old IT assets such as computers, servers, networking equipment, telephone systems, cell phones, copiers, printers, audio/video, medical and test equipment and much more.

Every single IT item that comes into in our secure facility will be carefully inspected for data containing media, recorded and tracked in every step of its processing. We recycle 100% of material processed, have no illegal exporting and have a zero landfill policy.e-End goes far beyond the federal guidelines when recycling your items, and protect your company’s reputation by preventing a costly data breach

We destroy data completely and recycle e-Waste items.

As an R2 Certified recycler, we can guarantee 100% recycling of your unused electronics— which means no land filling and no illegal exporting. To provide proper processing for CRTs we use a certified processor, which charges a fee to process these CRTs. We charge a fee of $8 for each old PC monitor and $25 for CRT televisions. This is to ensure that we can properly recycle this environmental blight, and you can rest easy knowing that your waste hasn’t ended up where it doesn’t belong.

These items can not be accepted at our recycling collection events: 

We will not accept any appliances, car batteries, any units with sludge or liquids, mercury containing items, any non-decontaminated medical equipment or anything that would pose a health hazard, units with compressors, such as air conditioners, dehumidifiers, microwaves, and other items e-End deems unacceptable for electronic recycling.