E-waste creates many challenges for the recycling industry as it contains many different materials that are mixed, bolted, screwed, snapped, glued or soldered together.

Toxic materials are attached to non-toxic materials, which makes separation of materials for reclamation difficult.  Hence, responsible recycling requires intensive labour and/or sophisticated and costly technologies that safely separate materials.

This is also why many recycling companies, don’t fully “recycle” however the experts at Secure Data Recycling continually improve and develop their skills allowing SDR to handle all the new and complex devices created and sold.