Quicksilver Recycling

Demanufacturing Obsolete and End of Life Equipment

Eventually all electronic equipment becomes obsolete or quits working and the cost to repair is prohibitive. QRS will demanufacture the equipment into commodity groups for recycling. This is accomplished in a labor-intensive process. Quicksilver does not landfill or incinerate electronic equipment nor do we export in-tact non working equipment to developing non O.E.C.D. countries.

All equipment is manually disassembled and the different end products are separated.

Circuit boards are cleaned of all batteries and mercury switches, before being shipped to a domestic facility for refining of the precious metals.

Ferrous and Nonferrous metals and aluminum that are generated are sent to a domestic facility for recycling, along with copper-bearing components, wire and other low grade metals.

Plastic is baled and sent to a domestic plastics recycling facility.

All recovered batteries are separated into their different categories and all are sent out to be properly recycled.
Mercury switches and other mercury containing devices are consolidated and shipped to a permitted retorting facility.
Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) are stripped of all hardware. The two types of glass in each tube (high and low lead) are separated in a controlled environment and bulked for shipment to an approved EPA glass to glass recycler.

During the receiving and/or demanufacturing process, QRS will identify and handle hazardous components in accordance with the applicable regulations. See the Hazardous Components section of this site for more detail on this issue.