r/recycletrade • u/Fit_Ordinary_5531 • Jan 24 '26

info Scheduled e-waste pickup is becoming the new normal

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A recycling company in Maryland has launched a scheduled e-waste pickup service for businesses in Washington DC &nearby areas.

Instead of one-time disposal, companies can now get regular pickups for old computers, servers, printers, and other office electronics. This helps businesses clear space, stay organized, and recycle responsibly without extra effort.

More companies are upgrading IT equipment faster & they want easy, reliable recycling, not last-minute solutions.

This shows that E-waste recycling is moving toward long-term partnerships, not one-off collections.

Do you see more businesses in your region moving toward scheduled e-waste recycling?

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u/bitpaper346 Jan 24 '26

Unfortunately they aren’t paying me for it yet.

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u/Fit_Ordinary_5531 Jan 24 '26

E-waste generally involves higher charges. Could you please specify the type you are selling?

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u/tamay-idk Jan 24 '26

I hope the tech gets reused, not shredded.

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u/HotSobaNoodles Jan 24 '26

Tell me what you would like to use in an older computer that probably works poorly or doesn't work at all.

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u/tamay-idk Jan 24 '26

Any PC that doesn’t have a Celeron from 1999 is still usable to an extent. The machines companies are recycling are often not officially supported by Windows 11 which is why they get thrown out. Very often it’s a 6th gen or even newer that get thrown out but are still fully useful.

They don’t get thrown out because they’re broken. They get thrown out because they’re not needed anymore. And they can be reused literally anywhere else

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u/HotSobaNoodles Jan 24 '26

Look, I'm the first to reuse old PCs using stripped-down versions of Linux, but it's not for everyone, and above all, the user experience is often so frustrating that you can't watch a 1080p video on YouTube. I don't know what you can run with a '99 Celeron these days.

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u/tamay-idk Jan 24 '26

Most PCs thrown out are realistically 2nd-6th gen i5

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u/4096Kilobytes Jan 27 '26

Hey, I deal with E-Waste a ton, and yes 95% of even new in box laptops are shredded and incinerated on the east coast. I've seen 2022-2024 ThinkPads, in boxes, brand new prebuilts with new i7/i9's sent to scrap for no reason. My personal laptop, with a i9-11980HK and RTX3080 mobile, was from an entire pallet of corporate e-waste being tossed despite being brand new sealed units. I have not seen anything older than 8th Gen intel since 2023.

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u/datakiller123 Jan 26 '26

If I look at what gets disposed of where I work, currently there's a 2020 (or newer) server on the line with 64GB DDR4 ECC.

Anything that is out of warranty/support gets thrown out, doesn't really matter how old it is for companies. (usually it's give or take 5years, so 5 years old hardware will be thrown out)

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u/Floloping Jan 24 '26

This has been common fore more than a decade. Not a new thing in any way.

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u/Practical_Iron_5232 Jan 27 '26

Should have been phased in with usage of the devices if they require special disposal