Pulling apart wire, plastic and metal can be a tedious practice, but one Ohio-based company is an industry leader in e-waste recycling.
Chomoeun Sith spends his day unscrewing parts and pulling plastic in an effort to recycle.
"We'll disassemble every component of this piece and then separate them accordingly whether it's aluminum, plastics, electronics," said Sith.
Sith works for Ohio-based Redemtech, and IT asset management business that, among other things, recycles out of date and underpreforming electronics.
"When we talk about recycling we think a pop can that is discarded and turned into new pop cans and that's essentially what we're doing with electronic equipment," Redemtech president Bob Houghton.
Redemtech goes against the grain as an industry leader in e-waste recycling.
Houghton said as many as 90 percent of companies dealing with electronics recycling have a secret.
"Rather than recycling them back down to their raw materials, they simply ship them overseas to developing countries where the costs are much less. But, there are no provisions for worker safety or sustainability," said Houghton.
Houghton said his company has more than just a moral obligation to keep people safe.
"It's not right to be poisoning people in developing countries with our electronic waste," said Houghton. "No prison labor, no landfill, no inceneration, and no export."
Those are the four pillars defining Redemtech's recycling policy, a strong green message sent industry-wide from this rapidly growing company.
The company saves 600,000 pounds of equipment from going to the landfill each month by recycling it, totalling 8 million recycled pounds every year.
For more information on Redemtech, check out the company's website.
