ARTEX Environmental Corporation

ARTEX provides electronic waste (E-waste) recycling services that meet the highest standards of data and device security, environmental responsibility and customer care. We serve governments, corporations and organizations of all sizes in the private and public sectors throughout North America.

Mission

We are committed to continually improving our industry-leading best practices in data security, customer care and environmental stewardship.Our mission is to provide customers the most secure recycling of their end-of-life electronic products available in the E-waste industry – guaranteed. See Secure Data & Device Destruction We handle our customers’ electronic waste in accord with the highest environmental standards, sending no E-waste to landfill and working only with the best downstream partners, which we regularly audit for environmental performance. See Environmental StewardshipOur service commitment to our customers is that their confidential data will never fall into the wrong hands, their obsolete equipment and serial numbers will be completely destroyed and never end up in a landfill or overseas dumping ground, and their E-waste contaminants will be handled to the highest environmental standards. 

Why ARTEX
Our leadership team’s extensive expertise in both enterprise IT and advanced environmental solutions gives us unequalled capabilities in the creation of customized total solutions for clients across all industries and the public sector.

Pickup & Logistics

As part of our end-to-end best practices promise, we offer convenient and highly secure pick-up & logistics services. We will provide you with exemplary service and meticulous care, whether you’re a single location or have sites across North America.

• Pick-up services at your facility: dock or ground level
• Secure transportation service: can include dedicated and sealed trucks for maximum security
• Consolidation services: we can consolidate multiple locations in secure warehouse facilities across Canada to improve transportation efficiency

Asset Destruction & Recycling

All of our asset destruction services adhere to best practices for extremely high security and environmental responsibility. We completely destroy and recycle all types of electronics including servers, desktop computers, printers, fax machines, communication equipment, diagnostic equipment, hard drives, storage media, consumer electronics, cellular, specialty diagnostic equipment and decontaminated medical equipment.

• Manual removal and responsible recycling of hazardous materials: batteries, ink/toner, coolant, LCD backlights, leaded glass, etc.
• Complete destruction of all data-carrying components, serial numbers, logos, asset tags
• Shredding to very fine 1” size to ensure complete secure destruction and allow for greater recovery of recyclables during mechanical sorting.
• All materials sent to our audited and approved downstream recyclers, selected for best-in-class environmental performance
• On-site hard drive and media shredding: an optional service to provide secure witnessed shredding at the customer’s premises

Documentation

We give your obsolete equipment a distinct lot number and track its progress in our FIFO Inventory System, enabling us to follow it through the destruction process and provide verifiable Certificates of Secure Destruction. Our processes and records are completely transparent to you, the customer, and available for review.We are flexible in meeting your unique needs for asset or serial number reporting.

• Daily & monthly reporting
• Certificate of Secure Destruction for all destroyed assets
• Serial Number scanning
• Asset Tag recording
• Make and Model recording
• Witnessed Destruction
• Video-Recorded Destruction

About E-waste

Unlike typical waste streams, E-waste carries with it the threat of exposure of highly sensitive information, potential legal liability for corporate officers, and the severe risk to reputation associated with polluting the environment with toxic substances such as mercury, lead, lithium and cadmium; hence the need for highly secure and environmentally responsible processes.

Environmental Stewardship

Poor environmental practices abound in the E-waste industry. We take environmental responsibility very seriously. That’s why we’ve built our own unique, highly ethical E-waste ecosystem.At ARTEX, protecting the environment isn’t just our job, it’s our passion. It’s what drives us to be innovative – to continually raise the bar on our own performance. See The ARTEX Story
The unfortunate truth about the E-waste business is that its environmental practices are often lax, sometimes non-existent and occasionally unlawful. E-waste, containing highly toxic materials such as mercury and lead routinely ends up in landfills, oceans, lakes and rivers or is shipped to developing counties where it contaminates the environment and poisons the people who live there. On the flip side, E-waste containing important recyclable materials often ends up in landfills, with those non-renewable resources unharvested. Environmental standards pertaining to the E-waste business, while minimally helpful, fall far short of what is needed to ensure good environmental protection. See Why Care
ARTEX raises the bar for environmentally responsible recycling in many ways, and our best practices are readily verifiable. Our processing facilities send zero E-waste to landfill, period, an accomplishment that we believe is unequalled in the North American E-waste business. We shred materials to half the size of the industry standard, allowing more recyclable materials to be recovered by our downstream partners. We not only meet but exceed industry environmental standards (See Credentials) and we set our own bar higher every year, continually improving our environmental scores.
A key aspect of environmental stewardship is what happens to E-waste materials when they are sent to downstream partners for further recycling. It is here that many of the most egregious environmental violations occur, and for that reason ARTEX has developed its own downstream partner ecosystem, comprising the most environmentally responsible recyclers in the business. To ensure that this ecosystem remains the industry’s best partner network, ARTEX regularly audits all of its downstream partners to ensure their best-in-class performance. Our customers can access this audit information.