Great Lakes Electronics offers secure and environmentally conscientious disposal of your old electronics

Great Lakes Electronics operates five electronics de-manufacturing and recycling facilities. The rapidly growing company was founded by Nathan Zack in 2000 in the basement of his house and now has over 120 employees and over 160,000 square feet of facilities with 6 acres of outdoor scrap yard . Great Lakes Electronics offers nationwide collection.

Safe and Secure Information Destruction

If you want your computer recycled safely and your data destroyed, Great Lakes Electronics is the company you have been looking for. The demanufacturing process takes old electronics (computers, servers, cable boxes, TVs and more) and breaks them down into their various components. Anything that contains personal, proprietary, or sensitive information is destroyed in the companies giant shredder and other components are recycled.

Great Lakes Electronics has a ZERO LANDFILL Policy

The volume of old or obsolete computers and electronics increases dramatically every year. The National Safety Council estimated that over 500 million PC’s have been relegated to scrap in the United States as of 2007. These old PC’s contain hazardous amounts of toxic heavy metals including lead, cadmium and mercury, and it is critical to the environment to keep these materials from landfills and incinerators.

Through environmentally responsible disposal, GLE helps you turn these liabilities into assets. Components of value are allocated for reuse or recovery of raw materials. Remaining scraps are then properly recycled by permitted associate facilities.

We recycle all types of electronic equipment containing circuit boards, cathode ray tubes, ferrous and non-ferrous metals. No minimum shipments.

GLE customers are issued Certificates of Recycle for each shipment processed.

DE-MANUFACTURING

Great Lakes Electronics process means de-manufacturing.

We take old computers, servers, mainframes, cable boxes, TVs and other electronics, and turn them into piles of recyclable bits and pieces. Components of value are allocated for reuse or recovery of raw materials. Remaining scraps are then properly recycled by permitted associate facilities. We use a 15-foot-tall shredder that chews electronics into chunks as small as the change in your pocket.

Nathan Zack, President of Great Lakes Electronics started this company with an intention to dispose of old electronics in an environmentally responsible way. We have a ZERO LANDFILL policy. We recycle all types of electronic equipment containing circuit boards, cathode ray tubes, ferrous and non-ferrous metals. No minimum shipments.

Shredded electronics components go to a separator that picks apart the iron, aluminum and plastics, and ships them to companies that recycle those specific materials.

We record the serial numbers and other information for every computer destroyed, using a proprietary bar scanning system.

Our process keeps lead, cadmium, lithium and other electronics toxins out of landfills. Even old wood is sent to a chopper and turned into mulch.

Great Lakes Electronics has been recognized in the media for their environmental efforts.

Great Lakes Electronics removes any worry you have about disposing of old hard drives and the data they contain.
We offer complete destruction of all drives with our in-house shredder. This amazing machine actually grinds and chops the drive into small pieces making it impossible to recover any data. 

Great Lakes Electronics issues Certificates of Destruction and Certificates of Data Deletion upon request for any products we handle. We can also record the shredding of your drives so you can watch YOUR drives being destroyed.

Asset Management

Reclaim Value! Recover Profit!

Great Lakes Electronics can help you extract value from your company’s old and unused computers. By utilizing our Asset Management service you can offset the costs of retiring old office electronics. We will help you identify the value of your retired electronics.

With technology rapidly changing, you need to consider a safe way to dispose of old computers and properly recycle outdated systems. We are a leader in computer asset management. We offer a one stop solution providing you piece of mind for your electronic waste recycling needs. When businesses need to protect their data and recycle computers in accordance with today’s regulatory standards, they trust Great Lakes Electronics Corporation.

Our computer asset management services provide the full, single-source, complete solutions for just about any companies, government entities, schools and organizations need.