GREEN WAVE COMPUTER RECYCLING

Founded in 2007, Green Wave Computer Recycling has grown from a local electronics recycler to one of the largest privately-owned Midwestern electronics recyclers/collectors. We also service numerous national accounts from coast to coast and provide unique collection and recycling solutions for local, regional, and national customers.We currently operate a 72,000 square foot processing facility in Indianapolis, IN with several satellite collection points throughout the Midwest along with a fleet of trucks and trailers to service numerous accounts. In 2017, we are projected to recycle over 20 million pounds of electronic waste.

Mission Statement

Green Wave Computer Recycling will continually improve our systems while striving to minimize adverse impacts on the environment throughout the operations and managing the end of the product life, including recovery, reuse, recycle and disposal programs and only ensure that it only exports equipment and components to countries that legally accept them.

The Green Wave Advantage

Green Wave Computer Recycling helps you and your organization properly recycle your e-waste and destroy data-containing items to ensure security. We offer complete, auditable, e-waste recycling solutions for businesses, organizations, government agencies, solid waste districts, and the general public. We currently eliminate millions of pounds of electronic waste from entering our landfills each year. In 2017, we are projected to recycle over 20 million pounds of electronic waste. Our 72,000 square foot Indianapolis processing facility receives and processes semi truck loads of electronics each and every day from customers across the nation.

Green Wave Computer Recycling holds itself to a high standard in terms of data security, environmentally compliant recycling practices, social responsibility, and recovering value through reuse. All of these goals fall in line with a voluntary e-waste recycling standard known as R2, which was developed by several industry stakeholders in conjunction with the United States EPA and requires third party audits of our facility, process, and procedures.When you partner with Green Wave, you can rest assured that your equipment will be processed according to the industry's best practices, which means that your equipment will not end up in landfills or exported to unapproved toxic dumps in developing countries. We utilize a network of R2-approved partners along with many, ISO 9001 certified and ISO 14001 certified partners for any processed scrap material that leaves our facility. To reduce liability and protect your company's reputation, make sure you're using an R2 certified recycling partner like us.

Business, Education, Government Recycling Solutions

Whether you have 10 items or 10,000,000 items, we are able to have our professional, uniformed, pickup crew come in one of our company-owned trucks to your company or organization’s facility to remove the old computers, monitors, laptops, and other electronic equipment. Our service includes, but not limited to, our crew doing the removal, loading, and secure transportation of your electronic equipment back to our processing facility.After the computer and electronic items leave your company or organization’s facility or are dropped off at our facility, all liabilities are transferred to Green Wave Computer Recycling. When the items arrive at our facility, each data containing item is scanned into our database (can be done at your location before physical removal) to ensure the recycling and data destruction process is tracked. The hard drives are pulled from the computers and physically destroyed (which can also be done onsite at your facility) to disable any information from being recovered. The hard drives are then thrown into a larger container to be shredded for metal recovery. We process cell phones, MP3 players, copy machines, networking equipment, and other data containing devices in the same manner.Asset tags and company ID tags are removed from devices to ensure that your company or organization’s identity is unknown to our recycling partners who refine the plastics and metals. This brings peace of mind for clients whom want to remain anonymous. This is one of the many ways that Green Wave Computer Recycling is able to better serve clients.

Asset Management

Green Wave Computer Recycling offers a variety of unique Asset Management services which enables business and organizations to recover market value of their electronic assets while protecting their brand and making sure that data security is achieved to its fullest.Green Wave can provide numerous levels of Asset Management from simplest service of recording asset numbers and providing a Data Destruction & Proper Recycling report, to the most detailed, white glove service of de-installation of equipment, on-site packaging, on site data destruction, serial number capturing, market analysis, and marketing the equipment on the secondary markets, while paying special attention to data security. We have provided numerous, unique Asset Management solutions for customers.

Recycling Process

Green Wave Computer Recycling is not just a collector of electronics, but also a recycler of electronics, which means that we dismantle or shred electronic items down to the commodity grade components for further processing.The dismantling and shredding process produces various types of plastics, metals, precious metals, and other material that are then baled, combined, and/or flattened to be sent off for further processing in the United States or in Europe. For example, the plastic cases from computer monitors or printers are ground into small pieces to be utilized in the manufacturing of new products. The steel is shredded, melted, and then made into new steel, which may end being used to manufacture your new car or furniture.We do not export any materials to be dismantled. We operate a dismantling line in our 72,000 square foot facility that processes various materials, five days a week.We adhere to a 0% landfill policy for focus materials. We strive to achieve this policy by adhering to the various regulations set for in the R2 Standard as well as other relevant ISO certifications. We even recycle the cardboard, paper, aluminum pop cans, and pallets that we use in our facility!