by Recycle IT | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
There is a quiet trend picking up steam online right now. People are cracking open their old smartphones, pulling apart circuit boards, and recovering the tiny amounts of gold and other precious metals hidden inside. It sounds a little extreme, but it makes a...
by Recycle IT | May 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most people have been there: a new mattress arrives, and suddenly you are staring at the old one wondering what on earth to do with it. Dragging it to the curb feels wrong, and it probably is. In most areas, municipalities prohibit placing mattresses in regular trash...
by Recycle IT | May 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
When most people think about recycling old electronics, they are thinking about keeping things out of landfills or wiping sensitive data off a hard drive. What many people do not realize is that inside nearly every device they have ever owned, there is a metal that...
by Recycle IT | May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
From Punch Cards to NVMe: The Evolution of Data Storage Data storage is easy to take for granted. You slide a drive the size of a stick of gum into your laptop and walk away with two terabytes in your pocket. But that casual miracle took the better part of a century...
by Recycle IT | Apr 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
It is a reasonable assumption to make. You paid thousands of dollars for that copier, or tens of thousands for that server rack, so surely it must be worth something significant when it comes time for recycling it. Unfortunately, the electronics recycling industry...
by Recycle IT | Apr 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you have been searching for “computer recycling near me” in Salt Lake City or Utah County, you are not alone. As the Wasatch Front has transformed into one of the most active technology corridors in the country, the volume of electronics flowing in and...
by Recycle IT | Apr 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Where It All Started: The Road From Desktop to Laptop Before laptops existed, personal computing was a stationary affair. Desktops dominated homes and offices, anchored to desks by tangles of cables and constrained by their need for wall power. The idea of carrying a...
by Recycle IT | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
When most people see an old office printer sitting in a break room or a storage closet, they probably assume it has some decent recycling value. After all, these machines are big, sometimes heavy, and feel substantial. Surely all that bulk translates to real scrap...
by Recycle IT | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever tried to recycle TVs or a bulky CRT monitors, you’ve probably run into a frustrating reality: nobody really wants it. Not the thrift store, not the curb on garbage day, and sometimes, not even the recycler. So what gives? Why is it so much...
by Recycle IT | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
When most people think about electronics recycling Utah businesses and residents are encouraged to participate in, they picture a simple drop-off and a clean outcome. The old laptop gets hauled away, the data gets wiped, and everything gets recycled into something...
