Secure, safe, and sustainable laptop disposal services by certified professionals.
Recycling old and used laptops is essential for protecting both the environment and your personal or business data. Many people are unaware that laptops contain hazardous materials like lead, mercury, cadmium, and lithium. If these devices are tossed into landfills, the toxins can seep into the ground and contaminate local water sources, harming both people and wildlife.
In addition to environmental risks, laptops store sensitive information—even after deletion. Simply discarding them can put your data at risk of being recovered and misused. Certified recycling services ensure that hard drives are wiped clean or physically destroyed to protect your privacy.
Laptop recycling also conserves valuable resources. Devices contain precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper, which can be recovered and reused in manufacturing new electronics. This reduces the demand for raw materials and the environmental damage caused by mining.
Finally, responsible disposal helps reduce electronic waste and keeps your workspace or storage area clutter-free. For businesses and institutions, it also ensures compliance with data protection and e-waste regulations.
By recycling your laptops with a certified provider like Chicago Surplus Computers, you’re making a smart choice—for your data, for your organization, and for the planet.
Old laptops can leak data, damage the planet and long-term repercussions way after their disposal. When you commission our team of professional laptop recyclers, we follow global and federal e-waste recycling rules to meet your corporate or legal compliance needs.
With Chicago Surplus Computers, you can rest assured your laptops are handled safely, legally, and responsibly. We take all makes and models of:
Once collected, laptops go through a secure, multi-step process which is based on the environment protection and recycling standards:
1. Inventory and Inspection
We log and sort all devices received according to their state of usability and functionality.
3. Component Evaluation – Usable parts are salvaged and tested for reuse.
2. Data Destruction – Hard drives are either wiped using DoD-compliant software or physically destroyed.
4. Eco-Friendly Recycling – Non-reusable parts are recycled in accordance with EPA standards.
Whether you have working or non-working laptops, all devices go through our standardized and high-quality checks process, assessed for reuse, resale, or recycling.
1. Schedule a Free Pickup
Call or contact us online. We’ll arrange a time that works for you, professionals and transport to pickup the laptops.
2. Data Removal or Destruction
We wipe or destroy all storage drives. Certificates are provided to you at the end of the process.
3. Environmentally Safe Recycling
We sort, refurbish, and recycle using certified methods and compliance with international standards.
