Electronic equipment contains materials that can damage the environment and prove hazardous for human life in the future. U.S. landfills are filling rapidly with electronic scrap.

Recycled materials are useful to a wide variety of industries to produce new products, creates various jobs, stimulates greener technology development and conserve energy.

If these components are disposed of at a landfill, hazardous material will be released into the environment and pose a danger to the current and future generation.

Electronic scrap contain hazardous and non-biodegradable material such as: lead, lead solder, plastic, copper, chromium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, nickel, zinc and older models may contain mercury.