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Electronic Upcycling
The Many Benefits of Electronic Upcycling When you make recycling a part of your daily routine, you’re actively reducing the waste you put out onto the planet. However, you may not be doing as much for the environment as you’ve been led to believe. As it turns out,...
Upcycling or Recycling? How To Manage Our E-Waste
When we think of upcycling or recycling e-waste, most of us think of our plastic bottles or old newspapers. Yet, many of us forget about items like old computers, lab electronics or medical equipment like x-ray machines. The reality is, we live in a society where we...
Recycling and Refining Old Lab Equipment
Depending on the condition of the instrument, maintenance and repair may return an item to manufacturer specifications for resale, or if it is no longer functional, working parts may be salvaged and sold, and the remaining scrap materials recycled. Recycling is an...
Surplus Service is “Great Place to work” Certified
The Surplus Service management and Surplus Service Team are proud to celebrate our recent certification as being a verified ‘Great Place to Work’ Organization. We honored to announce this certification and would like to formally thank our employees for facilitating...
Award Announcement
The California Community Colleges, Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development Division is proud to announce the formal award of a $500,000 California Apprenticeship Initiative grant to Surplus Service. Surplus Service, an e-waste UpcyclIT® management...
Lithium-Ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group
The California Secretary of Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), Mr. Jared Blumenfeld has recently announced the appointment of Lou Ramondetta, President of Surplus Service to the Recycling Advisor Board for Lithium-Ion Car Batteries. Ramondetta is the President...
Improvements needed in the Medical Supply Chain to meet High Demand
Wholesale Distribution of Medical Supply has grown exponentially in recent years and this has been due to, of course, for high demand and affordability of resources. We, Surplus Service, has been successfully and affordably providing the necessary services and products to fulfill these needs. We had our article recently published in the Arab Health Magazine. Arab Health Magazine, part of Informa Markets, was a speaker at FIME exhibition.
Recycling Vs Upcycling
UpcyclIT, Surplus Service’s registered trademark, is an option to recycling. Upcycling vs. recycling offers many benefits. Here are a few advantages of Upcycling over Recycling
4 Compelling Reasons Why You Need Data Eradication
When most people hear about the word ‘data destruction’ their face wears a look of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear. The last thing on their minds would be to delete the data available on their laptops, computers or cellphones. But the truth is when you own a small,...
