{"id":196,"date":"2014-07-16T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2018-10-08T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:44:08","slug":"processing-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/?page_id=196","title":{"rendered":"Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/ewasterecycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/big-recycle-bg.png'); width=100% ; height=100%); background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At MER your electronic equipment has two possible fates. Newer equipment is offered for sale to a second user after it has been refurbished, cleaned of asset tags, and the data storage devices sanitized. Older, obsolete, or broken equipment is de-manufactured into its individual component parts for recycling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MER has two recycling facilities in Iowa. The three-acre, four-building, 40,000-square foot facility in Walford houses our state-of-the-art CRT processor; sorting, de-manufacturing and refurbishment. The Clive facility collects, refurbishes, and de-manufactures electronics on a smaller scale.<\/p>\n<p>E-waste can be broken down into four main material categories; scrap metal and wire, mixed plastics, printed circuit boards, and leaded glass. MER separates e-waste into 29 specific types of materials for more efficient recycling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metals such as steel, iron, and aluminum go to a local scrap metal processor.<\/li>\n<li>Copper and scrap wire is collected for reuse.<\/li>\n<li>Plastics are separated and sent to be granulated for making new products from recycled plastic.<\/li>\n<li>Printed circuit boards are sent to smelters for extraction of the precious metals.<\/li>\n<li>Leaded glass is not recovered for material value but is processed to reduce its environmental impact. The glass called cullet is sent to a lead smelter for recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At MER your electronic equipment has two possible fates. Newer equipment is offered for sale to a second user after it has been refurbished, cleaned of asset tags, and the data storage devices sanitized. Older, obsolete, or broken equipment is de-manufactured into its individual component parts for recycling. MER has two recycling facilities in Iowa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbia.com\/ewasterecycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}