Turn your used Working Electronics, IT Equipment and Surplus business assets into cash.

Whether it is a household or an organization technology is replacing old electronic things very fast. Today, people are buying new electronic gadgets not only to make a new style statement but also to keep in synchronism with the rapidly changing world. While, most organizations find it economical to replace them with the new ones not only because they save money (energy), but they are also more work efficient.

Sometimes Companies need to close their operations and need to vacate the space they were using. This leads to unwanted technology equipment, business assets, hardware and furnishings that need to be accurately inventoried, sold, or properly disposed of. In case of company take over one company may have better systems than the other one. In this situation the owner will definitely look for someone who can buy back electronic surplus.

At this stage you can remember AGE Recycling. Whether you are looking for a one-time liquidation or a long-term partner for your asset management needs, we would love the opportunity to do business with you. We can purchase and pay locally, or we can travel nationwide to pay, de-install and ship items back to our facility.

1) To get a quote on what your used hardware is worth, simply call us at (831) 440-9051, or take 2 pictures (front and back) of whatever it is that that you want to sell, and email to agesurplus@gmail.com. Briefly write down the model #, (if it’s not in the picture) and the condition of the item. We will do our best to get back to you in one business day with an offer.

2) We can send you a prepaid shipping label, you can stop by our convenient location to do a drop off and get paid, or we can come to pick up the surplus items and pay you right at your location. We have several payment options, Company Check, Cash, PayPal, Credit Card, or Wire Transfer.

AllGoods Electronics (AGE) Recycling
440 Kings Village #2, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Email: agesurplus@gmail.com  Contact: (831) 440-9051
Website: http://www.agerecycling.com

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AGE Surplus wants to be the company you call to sell off your business surplus and electronics. Whether you are upgrading, moving, downsizing or closing an office we can be of service to you. We have over 20 years’ experience in the surplus electronics and asset recovery business. We always aim to be of service and to pay a price that is fair to all parties. Please contact us if you have a need for any of the below listed services we offer.

• Onsite removal of unwanted equipment

• Asset Recovery for surplus equipment

• Complete office liquidation

• Free E-waste collection

• Certified data destruction

We can purchase any kind of equipment that still has a commercial or residential use. 

• I.T. & Networking Hardware and equipment

• Test Equipment

• Servers

• Drive arrays

• Desktops, Laptops and PCs

• IP & Digital Telephones and phone systems

What surplus items do you have to sell? Call or email us for a quote.

Let AGE Surplus be your one stop shop for all of your surplus electronics, e-waste and office liquidation needs.

Contact us today for a free on-site estimate

AGE Surplus
agesurplus@gmail.com
831 440 9051

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Electronic Waste Facts

One of the most challenging problems today in the waste stream is electronic waste products, particularly because of their quantity and the fact that they are of high toxicity. In America every year as a minimum 2.5 million tons of e-waste is generated and its 50 million tons when calculated worldwide every two years. Below are some facts explaining more about eWaste.

·        81% of a desktop computer’s energy use is in making the computer, not using it.

·        54% US Adults throw recyclables in trash when recycle bins are not present.

·        US disposed of more than 2.4 million tons of waste generated from electronic devices in 2010.

·        Americans disposed of nearly 20,000 tons of mobile devices in 2010.

·        Americans dump over $60 million in gold/silver in the name of cell phones per year.

·        In America only 2% of the trash in landfills is covered by Electronics Waste, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste.

·        The largest eWaste site on Earth is in Gulyu, China. Approximately 88% of children there have dangerous levels of lead in their blood.

·        In 2010, there were 51 million computers disposed. 60% of those were thrown into the landfill.

·        To manufacture one computer and monitor, it takes 530 pounds of fossil fuels, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water.

·        20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed worldwide every year.

·        Only 12.5% of e-waste is currently recycled.

·        For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, 35,274 lbs of copper, 772 lbs of silver, 75 lbs of gold, and 33 lbs of palladium can be recovered.

·        Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

·        According to the EPA, E-waste is still the fastest growing municipal waste stream in America.

·        According to Wirefly.org, the average cell phone user gets a new cell phone every 18 months.

·        In the U.S., we toss more than 100 million cell phones in the trash every year.

·        The EPA reports that over 112,000 computers are discarded every single day, in the U.S. alone. That’s 41.1 million desktops and laptop computers per year.

·        20 million TVs are trashed in the U.S. every year.

So if next time you find something obsolete stuff in your place or you are going dump something, even a battery, please consider it recycling.

Keep Recycling

All Goods Electronics (AGE) Recycling
440 Kings Village #2, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Email: support@agerecycling.com Contact: (831) 440-9051
Website: http://www.agerecycling.com

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An eWaste Generated Toxin - Mercury

Mercury exists in various forms like inorganic, organic and elemental. People may be exposed to Mercury through their occupation and also through their diet. These forms of mercury vary in their amount of toxicity and in their effects on the nervous, immune and digestive systems, and on skin, eyes, lungs and kidneys.

Mercury is released into the environment from volcanic eruption/activity, weathering of rocks and also as a result of human activity. Mercury occurs naturally in the earth's crust. Human doings is one of the main causes of mercury releases, mainly coal-fired power stations, industrial processes, waste incinerators, residential coal burning for heating and cooking and as a result of mining for mercury, gold and other metals. Once in the environment, bacteria transform the mercury in Methylmercury. Methylmercury then bioaccumulates in fish and shellfish.

All humans are exposed to certain level of mercury. Most people are exposed to low levels of mercury. Though, some people are exposed to high levels of mercury, including severe exposure. Exposure to mercury mainly occurs through consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated with methylmercury and through worker inhalation of elemental mercury vapours during industrial processes. Cooking does not eliminate mercury.

Effects of Mercury
Mostly, two groups are more sensitive to the effects of mercury. Foetuses are most vulnerable to developmental effects due to mercury. Methylmercury exposure in the womb can result from a mother's consumption of fish and shellfish. It can harmfully affect a baby's growing brain and nervous system. The second group is people who are often exposed to high levels of mercury. Children showed cognitive impairment caused by the consumption of fish containing mercury.

The inorganic salts of mercury are corrosive to the skin, eyes and gastrointestinal tract, and may induce kidney toxicity if ingested. Elemental and methylmercury are toxic to the central and peripheral nervous systems. The inhalation of mercury vapour can produce harmful effects on the nervous, digestive and immune systems, lungs and kidneys, and may be fatal. Neurological and behavioural disorders may be observed after inhalation, ingestion or dermal exposure of different mercury compounds.

How to reduce human exposure from mercury sources
There are numerous ways to prevent adverse health effects, including promoting clean energy, stopping the use of mercury in gold mining, eliminating the mining of mercury and phasing out non-essential mercury-containing products.

-        Coal contains mercury and other hazardous air pollutants that are emitted when the coal is burned. Burning coal for power and heat a major source of mercury.

-        Mercury is an element that cannot be destroyed; therefore, mercury already in use can be recycled for other essential uses, with no further need for mercury mining.

-        Mercury is contained in many products, including:

1.     Batteries

2.     Measuring devices, such as thermometers and barometers

3.     Electric switches and relays in equipment

4.     Lamps (including some types of light bulbs)

5.     Dental amalgam (for dental fillings)

6.     Skin-lightening products and other cosmetics

7.     Pharmaceuticals. 

A range of actions are being taken to reduce mercury levels in products, or to phase out mercury-containing products. In health care, dental amalgam is used in almost all countries.

Recycling Electronic Waste to prevent release of Mercury in the environment
One of the sources of Mercury is electronic waste. Electronics products like Batteries, Electrical switches and relays in equipment, lamps (including some types of light bulbs) etc. contain mercury. When these equipments are not disposed of properly, they end-up in landfills and causes Mercury and other harmful substances to be leaked into the environment.

Properly and responsibly recycling electronic waste can help reduce the release of toxins like Mercury in the environment.

Ask before handing over Electronic Waste

We are all interested and most of us are worried about the secret life of used electronics. We all want information on this issue and that's the good news. The bad news is that there continues to be significant confusion about what actually happens.

Common followup questions followed the lines of: "XYZ handles my e-waste and pays me to take this stuff off my hands. He is obviously making money, so things must be Okay, isn't it?

Not necessarily. The unfortunate truth is that there are many perfectly legal and profitable means to dispose of your used electronics. Unless you ask the right questions, you will never know and you could be incurring risks that you're not even conscious of.

Unless you're working with recycling companies that, at least, have either R2 or e-Stewards certifications, here's what happens all too often: XYZ pays you to take your used electronics and renovates and resells what it can, leaving a mountain of stuff that doesn't meet what's known as the "tech-cut line." This equipment usually has no value as re-usable products and either will be disassembled for its commodities to make new products. And, finally XYZ sells this pile, generally by the pallet, to the highest bidder.

XYZ can pay extra than others will because it doesn't have to meet third-party certification standards and will reprocess in the cheapest way it possibly can. This usually means it's heading overseas to places where rules and regulations, if they exist, are rarely imposed, and evil things will happen to people and the environment. XYZ is able to pay you what it does because it assurances itself higher margins by vending its e-scrap by the pallet to whoever will pay the most.

It all works pronounced until you consider the environmental, reputational and social problems it may create. People, those are involved in making decisions on IT asset disposition needs to ask themselves these two questions.

1. Is it good for our enterprise to dispose of our used IT assets without assurances that all of it is being controlled in the correct way in every stage of the recycling process?
2. Together with our ethical responsibilities to act responsibly, are we putting our organization's name and data at risk by not knowing where it's all going?

Do a favour, when disposing of electronic waste and electronic surplus, work only with recyclers that, at minimum, are either R2 or e-Stewards certified and are in good position with regulatory agencies. This will ensure you won't have to answer these two questions in a way that will create suffering for you and others in your society and across the world.

Secure Data Destruction Matters

Today an average company's data footprint is not only limited to local hard drives and tapes, but also mobile devices, memory cards and even virtual environments provided though the cloud computing. Every single byte of that data needs to be protected and managed securely not only in storage and transit, but also at the end of its life cycle.

Everyone must recognize the importance of erasing data. For example, if you're selling your smart phone on an online buying site, chances are you may want to make sure that the buyer can't dig up your old photographs and text messages, regardless of intent. Equally, most firms have legal obligations to destroy any sensitive information they're no longer using. But, some consumers and businesses show a surprising degree of disregard in this respect.

Secure Data Destruction At AGE (All Goods Electronics) Recycling

Not taking cautions to permanently erase data can lead to devastation. In this era of increasingly smart, interconnected technology, every bit of electronic information exists in physical form, no matter what it looks like on screen, there's a hard drive platter or memory chip somewhere that's ready for the taking.

Businesses and privacy-conscious consumers need to keep an eye on data assets that have come to the end (of their life-cycle), and then destroy them at their source. This may not sound like too complex; even someone with fundamental knowledge of technology might be familiar, with concepts like a disk format or factory reset. Failing that, it might still occur to them to toss an old laptop into a skip rather than risk its unauthorized reuse.

Regrettably, secure data destruction isn't actually that simple. None of the above methods ensure that the information stored on those devices won't be recoverable; in fact, it might take little more than a few minutes with a free software package to retrieve it. The common assumption is that this sponges the medium absolute, but that's not really true; most of the time, a format leaves almost all of the data intact. Its purpose is to strip out the existing file system only; not to secure and permanently erase any information. The OS (Operating System) might not be able to read it as normal, but it's still there.
A quick format is like throwing away the catalog of an enormous library. Without the catalogue it might be difficult to search the library, but the books are very much still in existence. Any freeware can be used to recover the data from such medium, regardless of what technical knowledge someone possesses.

In the case of mobile device the process might seem different, like carrying out a factory reset on a smartphone or other device with flash memory, but these methods are identical to a conventional disk format. The contents of the microchip remain right where they are, invisible to the operating system, but recoverable nonetheless. This was demonstrated in study from Avast, in 2014. The company bought 20 second-hand, factory reset Android phones from eBay and, using off-the-shelf recovery software, retrieved as astonishing amount of private data: 40,000 photos, 750 emails and text messages, and 250 contact names and addresses.

Destroying the hardware is no guarantee that the data contained therein will be unrecoverable. Even if it comes across as a last-minute, fail-safe method, even taking a hammer to hard drives won't work. There's a need, for reasons of legality as well as privacy and security, for even safer methods for the destruction of end-of-life data.

All Goods Electronics (AGE) Recycling 
Scotts Valley, CA 9506