Computers

Recycle Utah accepts computers, laptops, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, scanners and any other device that plugs into your computer.

There is a mandatory fee of $5 per monitor and/or laptop to cover the costs associated with recycling the glass / screen We also collect a donation of $1.00 for everything else!

Televisions (less than 21") require a $5.00 manadatory drop off fee.

TV's larger than 21" are $10.00.

We also take cables, cords, telephones, vacuums . . . most things that have a plug!!!

Please check in with staff before dropping off your electronic items to make sure we can accept them.

For CD's and disks, you can drop them off in the office. We do NOT take cassette tapes or VCR tapes.

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Here is what happens to the computers and equipment once they leave our premises:

• Hard disks are erased by running nine passes of Disk Wipe software. This is the same process the FBI specifies for their hard drives. For more information about how disk wipe works see http://www.dtidata.com/
• Plastic is purchased by Plastic Nation, a plastic recycler located in Boca Raton, Florida (http://www.plasticnation.com/, 561-482-9300). They pelletize it and ship it overseas.
• Tin, copper and aluminum are sold to Western Metals in Salt Lake City. The tin is shredded and sold to Nucor.
• Glass is shipped to Dlubak in Yuma, Arizona. They make it into cathode ray tubes. Their EPA # is OH0000186924.
• Wire, components and boards are incinerated by Cascade Refining. Their EPA # is 1113385. All plastic is burned off on a two stage clean burn process, the fiberglass is mixed with soda ash and made into flux, all metals (palladium, nickel, platinum, copper, silver, gold) are slagged and sent off for electrolysis and further refining.
• Processor chips are placed into solutions of hydrochloric and nitric acids and the gold, silver and stainless steel are leached from the ceramic material. The ceramic is ground to powder and sold.

1951 Woodbine Way,  P.O. Box 682998, Park City, UT 84068 
(435) 649-9698 - (fax) 658-1530