< SUBTRACTIONS, LLC >
The Computer and Electronics Recycling Company Serving the Mid-Atlantic U.S.A. Region

Providing computer and electronic recycling services to private companies, hospitals, institutions of higher learning and Fortune 500 companies for nearly a decade

Recycling computers and monitors is a good start but what about other electronic items? Here at Subtractions, LLC we take the environment seriously and try to recycle everything and anything that comes through our doors:

• Cell Phones:

It's estimated that about 130 million phones, weighing up to 65,000 tons, will go out of service in 2005. The average life of a cell phone today is a mere 18 months! An additional 500 million phones are in stockpiles, or sit unused in drawers, closets or glove compartments.

Reusing or recycling old phones cuts down on the mining of coltan and copper, both of which are used in the manufacture of cell phones. Coltan mining in the Congo has affected gorilla populations. Cell phones also contain heavy metals, including lead and cadmium, flame retardants in wiring and plastics as well as batteries all of which are potential environmental hazards.

Subtractions, LLC has partnered with a national cell phone recycling/re-using company to best manage the product. Many of the phones are modified and used to assist people who need to make limited emergency phone calls and other phones are dismantled and recycled. By federal law, all cellular phones have the capacity to make 911 calls without a plan from a carrier.

• Key Boards:

With every computer comes a keyboard. Because it's made of plastic and metals, nearly 100% of the keyboard can be, and is, recycled by Subtractions, LLC.

Our plastic is shredded and chipped and sold to a product manufacturer who uses the "reclaimed" plastic in the production of high-end components. None of the plastic is discarded. The metal from the keyboard (wire and internal mechanics) is also 100% recycled into new metal products.

• Computer Frames and other metals:

ALL electronics have metal as their primary component. And all metal can be recycled into such new products as refrigerators, car parts, commercial building products and thousands of other items.

Subtractions, LLC dismantles all obsolete and inoperable electronics to recycle the metal. Any old, non-functioning computer will be dismantled and the plastic will be recycled (see the note above about keyboards) and the internal metal frame will be shredded and sent to a metal recycling company where it will be fabricated into new metal for new products.

• For a complete list of all the components that we repair, dismantle or recycle, please click here.

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