SES

I had a good accumulation of electronic recycling to get rid of. I saw the sign that said Point Loma High School was sponsoring an e-​waste disposal in their school driveway this past weekend.
A nice tent and some signs were set up, directly people to the area where the event was taking place. Two men were very nice and helpful and took a bunch of things that I could not bear to throw in the trash, knowing they would harm the environment.
Thanks to SES, whose business card says they do onsite hard drive destruction at their Rehco Rd. office, along with accepting free e-​waste. There are also free business and industrial e-​waste pick-​ups. (Minimums do apply.) And you can bring your documents to be shredded here for $ 5 per banker box.
I like companies that are «green,» While a lot of them say they are, this one really is.
5 Unilocal STARS.

We took a laptop to a collection site Secure E-​Waste Solutions had set up in a Sprouts (Lemon Grove) parking lot. I asked, «What will you do with this?» Reply: «We will take it to a warehouse 10 miles from here, separate plastics and metals; then shred the hard drive.» «Where will the plastics and metals go?» I asked. Everything stays in Southern California to be reprocessed. Nothing goes out of country or even out of state.” I congratulated them on their business model, and learned I was talking with Larry who’d conceived of it. We’d read so much about how e-​waste taken to these dropoffs still ends up in landfills or gets sent to China where people, often children, breakdown plastics and metals over heat, exposing them to toxins that make them ill. We loved finding Secure E-​Waste Solutions. Their circular economic model is essential for the health of our biosystems.