eScrapinc, LLC
5150B W 38th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

At eScrapinc we specialize in the logistics of removing, recycling, and reselling used computer and electronic equipment.

FROM ERIC GOLDSMITH, OWNER/PRESIDENT ESCRAPINC

“Hello, I am Eric Goldsmith, son of Phill Goldsmith, who is son of Abe Goldsmith. Abe’s older brother, Samuel Meyer Goldsmith, started our family recycling metals, and Shop Rag services. In 1938 they manufactured their first Swing Sets, made from scrap steel.

Abe ended up running the business until he was in his 70’s and many family members, friends and community members have either worked for us, bought from us or sold to us over the 99+ years we have served Indiana and other states.

We have manufactured over 100,000 items in the more than 60 years in the Pipe and Playground business. Basketball Goals, Jungle Gyms, bike racks, park benches, clothes line posts, flag poles, docks, teeter -totters, fireworks canisters, special jobs for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and much, much more.

We estimated over 5,000,000 pounds of steel and other materials have been recycled by our family over the 99 + years we and our employees have been recycling.

In 1989 The Goldsmith Pipe and Playground was awarded the First Governors Award for Excellence in Recycling.

Over the years, the Goldsmith family sold many types of surplus materials, from Threaded rod, just ask Dr. John Abrahams, adding machines, pipe fittings, mopar paints, hardware of all types, buttons for clothing, lighting, medical equipment, lab equipment, test equipment, industrial electronics, electrical fittings, and much more.

Over 40 years ago my father, Phill, found himself in the electronic reuse and recycling business.

We have helped guide the Indiana Recycling Coalition and other stakeholders in an education campaign teaching about the Hazardous materials in Electronics. We helped to write the eWaste Legislation signed into law by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.

In 2007, I, Eric bought the business from my father, Phill. Life is good and I am blessed to have had the opportunity to serve thousands of customers over my career here at one of the Goldsmith family businesses.

I am also blessed to have worked with my own father, grandfather, brother, cousins and so many friends and other employees.

2012 will be a year to celebrate the 100 years my family has been recycling in our fair community. We hope to have a few exciting announcements about our future and hopefully one or more parties as we are in the processes of looking for a new start in a new building.

Our plans to move mean, we are in super sales mode…all materials are available for sale and much is make an offer. Till we move it, we want to make our old and any new customers deals they will remember us for.

We have survived 100 years due to you and your referrals and we say thank you.”

Eric Goldsmith has been a leader in electronics recycling and played a key role in the Indiana Recycling Coalition’s (IRC) e-Scrap Program by participating in the development of many of the best practices for the industry and was instrumental in a statewide education campaign on proper electronics management. In 2006, NUVO named Eric Goldsmith an "Environmental Hero" for his work.

You may need our services if you:

• Have a large quantity of computer or other electronic equipment requiring disposal
• Need specific computer or other electronic items that are no longer produced

Computer equipment contains large quantities of lead, mercury, and cadmium. This equipment, if not recycled properly, will leach toxic metals into the earth, potentially fouling groundwater, wells, and streams.As a result of these issues, it is now a federal crime for an organization to send more than 220 pounds of electronic equipment to a landfill. When a large volume of equipment is found in a landfill, the EPA has recently started tracking serial numbers back to the original owners.

eScrapinc gives you the option of recycling your used computers, printers, monitors and other electronic equipment quickly, painlessly, and legally. With one phone call we can handle the logistics of picking up your equipment, processing it, and recycling it in the most appropriate and environmentally sound manner.

What Happens To My Equipment

The challenge of recycling electronic equipment is that while used equipment may contain good parts and recyclable materials, the process of separating those materials is labor intensive. In the cases where the used value of the equipment does not cover the labor associated with recycling it, we charge for our services. This charge is generally far more cost effective than storing the equipment, paying your staff to legally dispose of the equipment, or the fines associated with illegally dumping the equipment.

When your equipment arrives at our location, it is sorted and goes through several steps:

• Any data destruction services you have requested are performed
• Equipment for which there is a strong resale market is tested and stocked. This is our preferred scenario as it allows the equipment to remain in use and completely removes it from the recycling stream.
• Non-Functional equipment is either demanufactured by us, or sent to equipment specific vendors for demanufacturing. Working parts are used to repair similar equipment and broken parts move on to the next step in the recycling process.
• Equipment that is broken or for which there is no market is completely stripped and individual recyclable materials such as plastic and steel are sent to material specific recyclers.
• Circuit boards are sent to companies that recover the individual chips from the board, properly dispose of the solder, and send the printed circuit itself on for recycling.

CORPORATE CLIENTS

We understand the pressure on your IT staff. Conversions to new technology require the full attention of your staff, leaving retired equipment such as computers, printers and monitors to pile up in back rooms. Quicker technology cycles mean that disposal will become more a problem in the future. We solve your disposal problem by handling all the logistics associated with equipment disposal.

eScrapinc will pick up used electronic equipment, stack it properly to avoid in transit damage, load it onto our trucks, and take it to our warehouse for sorting, demanufacturing, and recycling.We know that data that may be left on hard drives is a significant concern. We offer four levels of data protection for hard drives.

• Department of Defense compliant reformatting
• Erasing the drive with a high intensity magnetic field
• Disabling the drive by drilling the platters
• Shredding the drive

RESELLERS

We process over 75 tons of electronic equipment a month. Let us know what you need, and we can usually supply a significant amount of the materials you need. We particularly like to work with specialists in particular types of equipment. If you need HP printers, Compaq servers, monitors or other types of specialized equipment, contact eScrapinc today and we will be happy to work with you.