Do You Need to Bury Old Equipment Like An Old Pet?

It’s not normal to smell sewer odors in your home. Do you know what causes them, where to look to find them or how to get rid of them? In this video, we’ll go over the answers to these questions. Then we’ll walk through your house and talk about each area you might get those smells from.

From Your House to the Bone Yard

At Any Hour Services, most equipment installations include the removal of old equipment from customers’ homes. The technicians bring the old units to the bone-yard at Any Hour Services’s Orem location. This service means customer’s homes can be completely cleaned up after a job and the equipment is responsibly disposed of.

What Can Be Recycled?

The manager of the bone yard at Any Hour Services, Wayne, has been with the company for 9+ years. He and his team cut up furnaces, condensers, evaporator coils, and water heaters. Then they divide the various parts into groups for metal recycling, EPA-regulated refrigerant, motors, and more. Most of the recyclable materials are steel, but there is copper, brass, iron, and other items being recycled too. In honor of Wayne, most of our employees call the bone yard, ‘Wayne’s World’.

Where Does It Go Next?

Once the materials are sorted, they’re sent to MCR recycling in Orem for processing. MCR is a member of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc., and has been responsibly recycling equipment parts since 1992. Facilities like MCR typically sell the raw materials to another company that ships them overseas and melts them down for resale.

How Much Gets Recycled?

Last year Wayne and his team recycled over 1.3 million pounds of material. The money the recycling team brings in by recycling materials goes towards company activities for employees and their families.

Recycling equipment is part of Any Hour Services’s mission to help employees, customers, and the company. Turning things like old furnaces and water heaters into new things means less trash on our beautiful planet, family activities for Any Hour employees, and being an environmentally responsible business. Happy recycling!