3R Technology
5511 First Avenue South, Seattle, Washington, United States

We purchase IT assets from businesses, large and small, providing competitive return on your IT investment. We buy servers, network equipment, telecom, laptops, desktops, and more...Our mobile shredding service can come to your office, data center, or server room to securely destroy your hard drives and other media – both magnetic and optical.When you contact us for a valuation or pickup, we'll begin with an inventory. If you don't have an inventory available, we can come onsite at no additional fee and assist with an assessment.Our team will then ask a few simple questions to finalize the scope and logistics. We will then provide an initial estimate of value, and if applicable, costs for premium services, or recommend our free pickup and recycling services.For over 85% of our customer projects, we either write our client a check, or are able to offer a free pickup and recycling service!

PREMIUM SERVICES

Once your equipment is transported by our logistics team to our facility, the total weight of material from your pickup is recorded, and the material is quarantined if premium services have been requested.

PROCESSING & SORTING

• Once any premium services are applied, and the pickup material is weighed, processing and sorting begins:

• Hard drives are removed from equipment and either wiped with a 3-pass binary wipe process or shredded.

• Equipment that may be reusable is separated for further evaluation, testing, and refurbishment.

• Toner and ink cartridges are removed from printers and copiers.

• Batteries are removed, separated by chemistry, and insulated and packaged per US DOT requirements.

• End-of-life equipment and material is dismantled and separated by type into components such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, insulated copper wire, plastics, circuit boards, breakage.

• The resulting materials are packaged, aggregated and transported to regional downstream facilities for further processing, including shredding and electromechanical separation and ultimately to its final destination at a smelter. Resulting commodities then can be reintroduced into the market as raw materials for the manufacturing of new goods.

• All our processes and those of our downstream partners conform to the strict R2:2013 standard for e-waste recycling.

ASSURANCE & RECONCILIATION

Once your project has been completed, you will receive an R2:2013 certificate of recycling, with the total weight of material collected, and detailing the processes applied for data destruction.If applicable, you will also receive an asset log and/or destruction log, along with a purchase form or invoice, depending upon the final valuation and costs of the project.We track all of the projects through our CRM software, and at any time can provide the total weight of material that we've collected and processed for you.

ONSITE HARD DRIVE DESTRUCTION

Don’t wait for a security breach to occur from storing decommissioned hard drives and backup media.Our mobile shredding service can come to your office, data center, or server room to securely destroy your hard drives and other media – both magnetic and optical. This service is ideal for anyone in healthcare, finance, or government, as well as any operation that manages and stores high-risk data.

• Convenient – We’ll come to you! Our mobile shredder can operate on a loading dock, in an office or data center environment.

• Simple Power Requirements – A standard 110-outlet is all we require, as long as it is on a dedicated 20-amp circuit.

• Quiet – The 1.5 HP motor and solid steel enclosure ensure that it can be comfortably operated in any office environment.

• Audit Trail – We’ll provide a log of the serial numbers for all the hard drives that we shred for you.

• Certification of Recycling – A certificate is provided for the destruction with the total weight of shredded material.

• Insured – Upon request, we can provide a Certificate of Insurance to you detailing our aggregate $4 million insurance policy.

• Safe – In addition to manufacturer safeguards, we do air monitoring periodically to ensure shredding does not introduce significant particulate into the environment.

SECURE E-WASTE COLLECTION BIN SERVICE

Our Secure e-Waste Collection Bin Service provides an easy to manage, low-cost solution for securely storing your data-containing media and proprietary materials prior to destruction and recycling. Our service eliminates concerns of hard drives, optical or magnetic backup media, prototypes or other sensitive items being stored in a manner that may make them susceptible to unauthorized access or theft.

DROPOFF RECYCLING

• For our residential customers, our facility is open to receive e-waste recycling drop-offs, no appointment required at:5511 1st Ave South,Seattle, WA 98108

• Our warehouse receiving is open for drop-offs 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays.

• We are an authorized collector for the E-cycle WA program. Most items are accepted for no charge.