Greentech Lead: e-Cycle, a mobile buyback and recycling company for businesses and government, has launched wireless buyback portal that gives customers an easy option to recycle their devices in the most secure, environmentally responsible and cost-effective manner.
According to e-Cycle more than 95 percent of the devices it receives contain sensitive information despite people believing they had wiped the devices clean.
e-Cycle has been providing e-waste recycling to corporate and government clients on a global scale since 2005. The mobile buyback portal is an extension of this service.
Devices with resale values are cleansed of data and sold in developing countries where new technologies are desperately needed. Devices that cannot be recycled are shredded on site and sent to a recycling facility to reclaim the materials to make new products. The company follows zero landfill policy.
e-Cycle purchases more than 150 types of mobile phones and tablets. The company provides consumers with a prepaid mailing label to send in their devices. It also conducts its own independently verified data removal and does not outsource to third-party vendors.
“It is a natural progression for e-Cycle to expand into the consumer market,” said Christopher Irion , co-founder and CEO of e-Cycle. “As the leader in providing safe, secure and responsible mobile recycling to the business community, we saw a tremendous need for consumers to have accountability and reliability in their individual recycling efforts.”