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Recycling your old and unused cell phones has many benefits. Some of these benefits include recycling the materials used for new phones, preventing harm to others and the environment, and even the possibility to get money out of it by selling them..  One of the...

We are Summit E-Cycle and we help the Akron residents and businesses to offload old electronics and recycle them in the correct ways! We aim to ultimately reduce the amount of waste going into the landfills that harm our environment. But how do we do this? The answer...

The reason for consistent e-waste is simple, but no one person or company is to blame for the issue. E-waste is due to advances in technology and the release of new devices. But we cannot blame the companies for making their devices bigger and better. If you think...

Have you ever thrown out an old electronic and gone about your day? Chances are, every person has done this before whether it be a battery, a cell phone with a cracked screen, or even an old television. Such items contribute to an increase of e-waste in landfills and...

The electronic recycling process at Summit E-Waste starts immediately after one of three things happens.  Someone drops off electronics to be recycled We pick up old electronics from a business or organization  We pack up after one of our community e-recycling events...

There were a couple of deciding factors when we decided to start recycling vape products. These factors include safety, harm to the environment, and the ability to reuse valuable materials. Let's take a look further into three important reasons why recycling vape...

There are two main forms of recycling. Traditional recycling includes all of your common recyclables and electronic recycling includes all of the devices that run on batteries or that plug into a wall. When it comes to traditional recycling, these are items like...

If we stopped recycling today and never refurbished, reused, or repurposed another time, we would continue to add to the more than 50 million tons of e-waste that gets thrown out each year. TO put this number into perspective, that is the same as throwing out 1,000...

Since we started our electronic recycling journey, we have had a few people ask us “is recycling electronics actually eco-friendly?”. Well, we are here to answer the question and put the rumors to rest!  First things first, if you throw away your old electronics...