Recycling Events
Electronic Asset Security partners with local municipalities and organizations to provide back-end support for their electronics recycling events. We provide the equipment, staffing, and recycling experience necessary to make an event run smoothly and keep e-waste out of landfills!
Generally, anything electronic that is NOT an appliance or contains hazardous waste. See below for a more detailed list.
Sometimes, we are guests at a city recycling event to provide electronics recycling capabilities. The city or other guests may accept items we do not. Please check the city’s event website (typically linked in our description) for more details.
Most items are accepted Free of Charge, with some exceptions for CRTs, TVs, printers and cartridges, some batteries, and certified shredding for data-containing devices like hard drives, SSDs, tablets, phones, etc. Please see the Pricing Page for more information.
Sometimes, the sponsoring organization will pay for these items. See the event details below for applicable fees for specific events.
Electronic Asset Security is Iowa’s ONLY R2v3 certified electronics recycler. ALL data-containing devices we accept are cleared of data before leaving our facility, with no exceptions.
Additionally, for a small fee, we can provide a personalized certificate of destruction for your records if desired.
What We DO Accept:
- Laptops, Desktops, & Servers
- CRT Televisions & Monitors *
- LCD, Plasma, or OLED Televisions and Monitors*
- Keyboard, Mice, & Speakers
- Printers*, Scanners, & MFPs*
- Network Switches, Routers, & Firewalls
- Phones, Tablets, e-readers
- Business Phone Systems
- UPSs & Battery Backups
- CDs* (for destruction only) & Flash Drives
- Cords (Laptop and phone chargers, ethernet cords, etc.)
- Loose Lithium-ion, Alkaline, NiMi, or NiCAD Batteries *
- Anything other type of computing equipment, peripherals, or non-plastic consumer electronics*
* Some items may incur a small fee for recycling or secure destruction (if desired), depending on the event. Please see the detailed event descriptions below.
What We DON'T Accept:
- E-bikes, scooters, hoverboards, or other types of transportation
- Computer bags, software disks (unless shredding), & manuals
- Primarily plastic consumer electronics (at our discretion)
- Household items such as cans, bottles, cardboard, and plastics
- Paints, chemicals, solvents, automotive parts & fluids, and fertilizers
- Fuel canisters or gas cylinders
- Appliances, Microwaves, Fans, Air Conditioners, etc
- Refrigerators, Freezers, or anything that may contain refrigerant
- Light Bulbs & Fluorescent Lamps
- Fluorescent Ballasts
- Large High Voltage Industrial Transformers
- Anything else with hazardous waste, such as PCBs, Asbestos, Mercury, gunpowder, or other flammable or explosive substances.*
