GETTING THE EDGE IN ELECTRONICS

摘要

At United Recycling Industries Inc, recycling electronics is just like recycling cars-if the scrap processing facility contained a used car lot, engine diagnostics facility, auto dismantling operation, and auto parts wholesaler in addition to the shredder. To succeed in electronics recycling, URI's West Chicago, 111., facility does a little of everything: It tests and remarkets whole computer systems, dismantles electronics and sells the components, processes electronics for commodity recoveiy, recovers precious metals at a related smelting operation in Franklin Park, 111., and much more. With that combination of services, URI has become possibly the largest private, independent electronics recycling company in the United States, processing an estimated 40 million pounds of equipment in 2006.