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GEEP International and Techway Services Announce Joint Venture
July 18th, 2009 | 
Author: Published: September 17,2007
DALLAS, Texas – Sept. 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Techway Services, Inc. (www.techwayservices.com), Techway Service, Inc. of Dallas, Texas and GEEP International of Nevada (www.geepinc.com) have formed a joint venture company called GEEP Texas. The joint venture is part of GEEP International’s plan to create the largest electronics recycling and End-of-Life (EOL) IT services companies in North America.
The joint venture involves technology and asset transfers between the two companies. GEEP International will design, finance and install advanced eScrap processing equipment at the new GEEP Texas headquarters facility in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. This capital investment is valued at over $4,000,000 (USD). In return, Techway Services will share its industry leading data destruction processes and technologies. At the operations level, Techway Services will continue as a stand alone company offering complete IT asset disposal services while processing all eScrap worldwide through GEEP’s ISO certified facilities.
The GEEP Dallas/Ft. Worth plant will be the first of several new GEEP facilities slated to open across North America by the spring of 2008. These new geographically dispersed computer recycling centers, in addition to GEEP’s current North Carolina and Ontario facilities, will greatly reduce logistics costs for current and future clients such as OEM manufacturers, municipalities and Fortune 1000 companies.
About Techway Services
Techway Services, Inc. a nationally recognized provider of end-of-life (EOL) IT services for corporations, government entities, universities, and channel partners. Techway Services provides a full range of EOL services that include reverse logistics, computer remarketing, computer recycling, and electronic data destruction solutions. Techway Services is a certified Woman owned business and is also HUB certified in the state of Texas.
About GEEP
Global Electric Electronic Processing Inc. is the industry leader for eScrap recycling in North America, with state-of-the-art recycling facilities and advanced processing equipment. GEEP facilities are ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 registered and GEEP is committed to achieving a zero landfill objective. GEEP’s clients include telecommunication service providers, manufacturers and electric utility companies in both Canada and the United States.
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Tags: data destruction, electronics, End of Life, GEEP, recycling | 
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Don’t recycle ‘e-waste’ with haste, activists warn
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY
Consumers saddled with old cellphones, TVs and computers are flocking to electronics recycling events, which have sprung up in more than 1,000 communities over the past four years.
But don’t be fooled, activists warn. Items collected at free events are sometimes destined for salvage yards in developing nations, where toxins spill into the water, the air and the lungs of laborers paid a few dollars per day to extract materials.
“If nobody is paying (the collectors) to take this stuff, especially if they’re getting a lot of televisions, then they are very likely exporting because that’s how they make the economics work,” says Barbara Kyle, national coordinator of the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, a San Francisco-based advocacy group.
“E-waste,” or electronics trash, is piling up faster than ever, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Americans discarded 47 million computers in 2005, up from 20 million in 1998. Factor in other forms of electronics, and the nation now dumps between 300 million and 400 million electronic items per year, according to estimates from the EPA and the TakeBack Coalition.
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GEEP Ecosys Inc. helps keep students from dropping out
GEEP Ecosys Inc. helps keep students from dropping out through their engagement with the Réseau québécois des CFER
May 12, 2009
MONTREAL, May 12 /CNW Telbec/ – GEEP Ecosys Inc. joins forces with the Réseau québécois des Centres de formation en entreprise et récupération (CFER) in order to motivate young students to persevere within the educational frame while contributing to the protection of the environment.
The CFER are schools with integrated companies which target young Quebecers aged between 15 and 18 years old, who are challenged with learning difficulties in school. While receiving training with respect to the recovery and recycling of obsolete technology equipment, those students are enrolled in an educational program combining traditional teaching methods with a professional integration curriculum. This program gives them access to a certificate.
GEEP Ecosys Inc. plays a major role in this initiative developed by le Réseau québécois des CFER. GEEP provides them with viable, ecological and commercial options for their end-of-life products. In doing so, the company enables these non-profit organizations to maximize their revenues. As part of their training, the students will participate in the sorting out and disassembly of equipment. GEEP Ecosys Inc. will, in its turn, complete the process by managing efficiently and ecologically the end-of-life technology.
Additionally, GEEP Ecosys Inc. will provide certain CFER students at the end of their training, with the possibility of experiencing a supervised industrial internship designed to receive hands-on experience and put classroom theory into practice. This will facilitate their introduction to the job market and enhance their knowledge with regards to sustainable development.
“These students represent our promising youth and it is our responsibility to provide them with the necessary tools so they can become both professional autonomous and engaged citizens who are conscious that their quality-life also depends on their environment,” confirms Bruce Hartley, Vice President of GEEP Ecosys Inc.
Such a partnership enables GEEP Ecosys Inc. to significantly expand its network of e-colleX point of collection for technology equipment in Quebec in light of an upcoming provincial regulation on this matter.
About GEEP Ecosys Inc.
GEEP Ecosys Inc. (www.geepecosys.com), associated to the GEEP Group, is a company specialized in the end of life cycle management of technology related assets, which on one hand provides reverse logistics, detailed audit reporting, data security and refurbishing and on the other hand provides environmentally friendly recycling solutions. GEEP has partners in the industrial, institutional, commercial and domestic sectors in order to provide a sound commercial and green management for the end-of-life phase of technological assets. A leader in the industry, GEEP already owns more than 24 e-colleX e-waste collection sites, as well as six service centers in Canada of which two are e-waste recycling plants – one in Barrie, Ontario and the other in Edmonton, Alberta. These plants follow the effective and environmentally friendly end-of-life solution developed by GEEP.
GEEP has developed a global presence in order to service both international and local clients. GEEP focuses on sustainable development while ensuring the health and safety of its workers.
GEEP Shredder holds future for recycling
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The News and Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/
By Wade Rawlins, Staff Writer
Published: Sep 21, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Sep 21, 2006 05:34 AM
Shredder holds future for recycling
A Bobcat tractor scooped a load of computers, office telephones and keyboards off a factory floor at Research Triangle Park and dumped them onto a conveyor belt.
Up they inched into a 22-foot-tall industrial shredder, where a huge chain with links bigger than basketballs smashed the electronics into shards of metal and plastic about four inches long. A second process reduced the shards to chips the size of fine gravel.
With the wave of his hand, Johnnie Cox, operations manager at Global Electric Electronic Processing Inc., initiated a new era in electronic recycling in the Triangle.
The company is part of a new breed of sophisticated scrap dealers that specialize in recycling electronic components and ensuring that sensitive information doesn’t end up in someone else’s hands. Hard drives hold that stuff forever, so when computers wear out, businesses such as banks and medical offices can’t simply junk the machines.
Now they can shred them.
GEEP, part of Barrie Metals Group based in Ontario, Canada, has invested about $4 million in the shredder and hammer mill. The investment will greatly increase the amount of electronics GEEP can recycle to more than 24 tons a day, and it plans to invest in converting plastic into diesel fuel.
GEEP charges companies between 25 and 35 cents per pound for smashing computers to splinters, said Dan Roe, general manager of GEEP.
With the new machinery and greater processing capacity, the company plans to start accepting electronics from the public in coming months and to compete for local government contracts for electronics recycling.
“The GEEP investment is quite a remarkable thing for North Carolina,” said Scott Mouw, state recycling coordinator. “Shredders of this size and magnitude are not widespread in the U.S. For us to get one here is quite a coup.”
America’s love affair with electronics has created mountains of e-waste as new and better gadgets replace older models. The obsolete computers, fax machines and televisions pose new challenges to keep them out of landfills, where they can leak lead, cadmium, mercury and other harmful metals.
“People are realizing we don’t need to stick that stuff in the ground for our grandchildren to worry about,” Roe said. “In the next five years, electronics recycling will be one of the fastest-growing industries in the country. Anybody you talk to has a computer in the attic they don’t know what to do with.”
The recycling should help reduce the volume of e-waste going into landfills, and in time provide a new outlet to the public to dispose of computers.
Triangle residents tossed out more than 1.3 million pounds of electronics last year, county landfill collection records show. Much of that material was recycled in Wake, Durham and Orange counties, which pay recycling companies to haul off the materials. But most counties in the state do not have permanent electronics recycling programs.
Nationally, about 2.5 million tons of consumer electronics are thrown out a year, and only about 10 percent of that gets recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency estimates that nearly 250 million personal computers will become obsolete in the next 5 years.
And that’s just computers. Add in 128 million cell phones that are retired a year, along with untold millions of other electronic gizmos, and the mountain of e-trash grows.
About 400 companies in the United States recycle electronics, according to the trade group International Association of Electronics Recyclers. Many computer and cell phone manufacturers also operate recycling programs.
Business is evolving
Since coming to the Triangle in 2002, GEEP’s main income has been handling discarded electronics from high-tech companies in Research Triangle Park. Heaps of disassembled computers and plastic computer cases cover the plant floor.
The plant recycles electronics from about 30 companies, Roe said, with some electronics shipped from other states.
Some of the businesses, such as banks and health services companies, have sensitive financial information on computers, and they want the electronics shredded as though they were paper files.
Until now, 20 workers at GEEP disassembled computers and other electronics by hand, to recover materials such as steel, copper and aluminum. They processed about 3,500 pounds a day — just a fraction of what the shredder will do. Then the electronics were shipped to the company’s Canadian headquarters for disassembly and shredding.
With the new machinery, the company has added 12 employees.
The recovered steel, copper, aluminum and glass are resold as raw materials to manufacturers to use in making new products.
Mixed plastics are among the most difficult materials to resell. Within a year, GEEP plans to start installing a facility to convert recycled mixed plastic into diesel fuel. Roe expects the company will increase to about 100 employees when it starts producing diesel fuel.
“We really should have an impact,” Roe said.
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Tags: computers, e-trash, e-waste, electronics, GEEP, recycle, recycling |
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MRC Elects GEEP Exec to Board of Directors
MRC Elects GEEP Exec to Board of Directors
The Michigan Recycling Coalition has elected Jack Iwema, GM of GEEP Michigan, Warren, Mich., to its board of directors. Iwema has been involved in the environmental services sector for 35 years.
GEEP Michigan is the Midwest affiliate of GEEP Global, which is headquartered in Barrie, Ontario. GEEP recycles electronic waste, wire & cable into commodities with a zero landfill objective.
The appointment reflects the growing concern for proper management of electronic waste in Michigan.
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