Software company recycles e-scrap
By: Amanda Smith-Teutsch
June 07, 2010

A network software company in the Philadelphia area is offering electronic scrap recycling services to its clients.

Codima, a company in Robesona, Pa., provides network mapping software that identifies and locates failing hardware across telecommunications networks, said company head of business development Alfonso Knoll.

“We’re already identifying where bad hardware is, so to take and recycle the failed hardware is the logical next step,” Knoll said.

The company, through its Codima Green service, will remove the failed components; newly hired workers disassemble the computer components into separate sources — plastics, copper wires, etc., which are then sent to in-state partners who recycle the steel, plastics and copper taken out of the disassembled machines.

The only components sent out of state, Knoll said, are circuit boards, which go to an e-waste processor in New Hampshire.

“There are no exports of material,” he said, noting the company isn’t landfilling material either.

The company has no plans to charge its customers for its pickup and recycling options, Knoll said. Customers benefit as they no longer have to pay for e-waste disposal, and in some cases, depending on the amount of rare metals inside the components, Codima may offer upfront cash payment or devise some sort of revenue sharing agreement once the electronic scrap is processed.

For more information, visit www.codimatech.com.

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