At Urban E Recycling we take your security very serious. We have invested in • Security cameras • A degausser • HDD crusher for onsite hard drive crushing • State of the art hard drive shredder Do you think that is excessive ? We don't. When it comes to personal data destruction, we go to extremes for your peace of [...]
Baby Caught In A Desktop Scanner It was a hot, sticky day, at Urban E Recycling. It was a hot, sticky day, at Urban E Recycling, just like the last 98 days of our Florida summer. The roaring electric fan was the only relief from the heat, as usual. Yet today was not an ordinary [...]
E-Waste: An Emerging Environmental Concern By Daily Excelsior - 25/08/2019 Dr. Anwesha Borthakur With the intensification of the market for electronic products, ‘electronic waste’ emerges as a relatively new yet a rapidly emerging category of waste in the current global environment. Electronic waste, popularly known as E-waste, is a major challenge confronted by almost all the [...]
Harry was in a difficult place. Good news is, he just landed an awesome job in the I.T. department at the best health insurance agency in town. The office even had a window. On the other hand, the bad news; the office was full of old computers, wires, UPS's (backup batteries), a giant copiers and other e-waste [...]
Fail Fast. Painful but progressive. One of the trending quotes these days is “Fail Fast”. It’s not new. Failing fast, picking yourself back up and correcting your path is what happens in the entrepreneur business. I’ve never met anyone that started out with a perfect model and achieved smooth sailing from day one. It doesn’t happen. [...]
20 Ways to Market Your Start Up with Little or No Money I was a serial entrepreneur before serial entrepreneurs were cool. I’ve been there. I am a serial entrepreneur from way back. My efforts in business failed more times than succeeded. Urban E Recycling is the most successful company I have co-founded in my lifetime. I [...]
I am reading the book The Human Brand, by Chis Malone and Susan T. Fiske. I had to underline the sentence, "Social Media aren't so much changing the rules of business as they are restoring those rules of their natural order of social accountability." I had to think about this statement. I'm still thinking as I'm [...]
I am in a group called CEO Roundtable. I love the group. It’s like an advisory board for our company. Mary Key facilitates the group. She’s good. We always have a printed agenda. We set goals and keep each other accountable to them. We take turns bringing issues to the table. Last Tuesday it was my [...]
When you look up electronic recycling in Google or any other search engine, you find a few too many companies that claim to recycle your computer. Recycling electronics means very different things to different companies and people. Some companies recycle by wiping hard drives and repairing and reselling. Some recycle by taking a few valuable pieces out of [...]
We seem to all strive for a good credit rating. Of course, that makes common sense. A good credit score can get you lower mortgage rates, lower insurance rates, allow to borrow more money and sometimes enhance your chance of getting a better job. But good credit is sometimes annoying. I get tons of emails and [...]
