Once again it seems that recycling companies are still dumping IT equipment abroad.

“The Washington Department of Ecology has fined the Seattle-based electronics recycler Total Reclaim Inc. $444,000 for illegally disposing of flat-screen televisions and monitors with fluorescent tubes containing toxic mercury. The company shipped the flat screens to Hong Kong, where they were broken apart in the open by unprotected workers.

Total Reclaim has been a leading electronics recycler in Washington, so they knew what they were doing was wrong,” says Laurie Davies, manager of Ecology’s Waste 2 Resources program. “This penalty is a reminder that recyclers can’t take shortcuts when it comes to properly managing toxic chemicals.” click here to see the full article in recycling today.

Be assured that at Secure Data Recycling we never ship abroad and process all our IT here in the UK, under the strict European Guidelines. Recycle with trust, contact Secure Data Recycling.