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Albuquerque Recycling will recycle your unwanted and obsolete electronics and ensure that it is disposed of in an environmentally safe manner using best practices by e-waste industry standards and the EPA.

The following items are the more commonly accepted items for recycling:

• Computers, servers and laptops
• Computer peripherals such as keyboards, cords and wires and computer mice
• Printers
• Flat screen computer monitors
• CRT computer monitors
• Ink cartridges and toner cartridges
• Copiers and Fax Machines
• Scanners
• Telephones and Cell Phones
• Palm Pilots and Hand-held Electronic Devices
• Batteries - Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Nickel Zinc (Ni-Zn), Lithium Ion (Li-Ion), Small Sealed Lead Acid (SSLA/Pb), Vehicle Batteries including boat, motorcycle, forklift batteries  (Vehicle batteries will be compensated, upon request)
  
• UPS Computer Backup Batteries
• Motors
• Stereos and speakers
• Microwave ovens
• Televisions
• TV satellite equipment
• Cameras
• Computer game assemblies
• CD players
• DVD players
• CDs and DVDs
  
• Pots, pans and metal, including aluminum
• Specialized electronic equipment including medical, high-tech, and outdated equipment
  
• Christmas lights
  

Disposal Fees:  Most electronics are accepted for recycling at no cost.  However, there are disposal fees for CRT monitors (old-style computer monitors) and some televisions. 

CRT computer monitor disposal is $5.00, plus tax for a total of $5.35.  It is free if it is accompanied by a complete  computer tower.  Flat screen monitors are accepted free of charge. 

Television disposal fees for cathode-ray tube and projection televisions are $20.00, plus tax for a total of $21.40.   Newer Flat Panel Televisions are accepted free of charge.   

We accept checks, money orders and credit card payments.  Businesses may be invoiced upon request.

Collection Fees:   Qualified collection pickups are free.  Otherwise, fees depend on quantity of material for collection pickup, location and other factors.  For an exact quote, please call the office at (505) 990-3732.

Drop-off:  Please stop by any time during our normal business hours to drop off electronics.  Come into the office and we will send staff out to your vehicle to remove the items to the warehouse.  After hours and on weekends, please take your electronics to the City of Albuquerque, Eagle Rock Convenience Center.  (See link on Home Page.)

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We do not accept the following items:

• coffee makers
• Bread machines
• Lightbulbs
• Alkaline batteries
• Appliances
• Cardboard and paper
  

Hard Drive Data Destruction

Protecting your confidential information is very important to Albuquerque Recycling.  Rest assured that every hard drive is removed from each computer, laptop and copy machine that is accepted for recycling. 

All electronic data on functional storage devices is overwritten by means of a destructive write process using a program called Secure Erase.  Secure Erase has been approved by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and Computer Security Center, the latest technology available for destroying information and is equivalent to "electronic shredding". 

If the hard drive is non-functional and will not accept the overwrite process, the hard drive is physically destroyed utilizing a 5-ton press that punctures the hard drive shattering and destroying the plates within as illustrated in the photo above. 

Our company follows all guidelines for HIPPA security and media santization and a customized Certificate of Disposal is available to medical establishments. 

Financial institutions receive a specialized COD for destruction of all information on hard drives.

Standard  Certificate of Destruction forms are provided upon request.