Global Electric Electronics Processing, a subsidiary of Barrie Metals, one of Canada's largest recycling companies, opened an electronics collection and recycling facility in Durham, N.C. The facility was officially opened June 3, and is a move by the company to increase its handling of scrap electronics.
The company will remove copper wire and other metal parts from old tech gear and send what's left to its Canada plant and to European companies that can smelt more metals from the parts. Recycling clients are charged a fee for processing the old computer parts, but they get a rebate for money made reselling the metals.
"It takes the bite out of demanufacturing," said Tom Fellows, vice president of international operations for Cable Recycling, the Barrie Metals division that runs GEEP. "The recycling becomes revenue generating for the company."
Along with the facility in North Carolina, GEEP operates its main facility in Barrie, Ontario.
Cable Recycling Inc. is an industry leader for Investment Recovery in North America. The Ontario facility handles both ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
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