You don’t need to bury your old equipment! In fact, Any Hour Services will haul away your old equipment and recycle it. In this article, we share a little bit about Any Hour Services’s recycling process because we care about Any Hour Services’s impact on the environment and we know you do too.
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!
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