Printer and Copier Recycling in Atlanta
Multifunction machines, desktop printers and copiers, collected from the floor they sit on.
Office printing hardware is awkward to retire. A floor-standing multifunction machine is heavier than it looks, it rarely sits anywhere near a dock, and it can hold a drive nobody has thought about since the day it was installed. American Resources collects printers, copiers and multifunction devices from businesses across metro Atlanta, at any volume from a single machine to a floor of them.
Printing and imaging hardware
- Floor-standing multifunction devices
- Desktop and workgroup printers
- Copiers
- Drives removed from imaging equipment
- Handheld scanners
- Cabling collected with the machines
A copier is a computer with a paper path
Multifunction machines that scan, store and re-print jobs can hold storage, and that storage has held whatever the office scanned through it. It is easy to overlook, because nobody files a copier under IT.
Where a machine holds a drive, the media is wiped or physically destroyed before the device enters the recycling stream, the same way it is for a server or a laptop, and the destruction is listed in the documents that close the job.
It is worth flagging the machines you think might hold storage when you send the inventory, so they are treated as data-bearing rather than as furniture.
Weight, doorways and the route to the vehicle
A production copier does not go down a stairwell and does not fit through every door. Most of the planning in a printer collection is about the route: which elevator, which doorway, what the floor will carry, and whether anything has to come apart before it moves.
Volume, access and how much staging has already been done are what shape the job, so describing the machines and where they stand is more useful than counting them.
Printing hardware is also the equipment most likely to be sitting on a lease. Anything on a lease, under an asset register or awaiting a buy-back should be marked, so it can be logged as it is loaded and closed out on your side afterwards.
Where the material goes afterwards
Imaging hardware is a mix of steel frame, circuit boards, motors, rollers and plastics. The metals are recovered, gold, silver and copper among them, and lead, mercury and cadmium are kept out of landfill.
A quote is itemized against what is actually in the mix, because the recoverable value in a machine and the cost of handling it are two separate things and both belong on the paperwork.
Machines being replaced rather than simply removed are usually best collected once the new hardware is in place, so a floor is never left without a device it still needs.
Printing hardware is one stream inside the wider electronics recycling service.
Displays retired in the same office move are covered by monitor and TV recycling.
Where the drive inside a machine is the real concern, hard drive destruction covers media on their own.
Need This Handled in Metro Atlanta?
List the machines, say which floor they are on and whether any of them hold storage, and a quote comes back against the list.