Every certified e-waste facility, with its source attached.
Atlas lists every facility published by the certification registries it tracks, and adds significant uncertified operators as research confirms them. It does not claim to list every business in the sector, because no registry publishes that total.
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Participant roles describe what a company does in the chain, and every role on a profile shows the evidence behind it.
Takes enterprise IT assets end to end at facilities it owns or operates: intake and inventory, data sanitization, test and grade, remarket…
Collects end-of-life electronics from many business generators that are individually too small to interest a processor (small and medium…
Changes the condition or configuration of used equipment so that it can be sold again as working product: diagnosis, repair, part…
Buys used or surplus IT equipment, takes legal title, holds it as physical inventory, and resells it.
Destructively processes end-of-life electronics so that materials can be recovered: shredding, granulating, dismantling for material rather…
Handles and treats the regulated streams that arise from electronics under hazardous or universal waste rules: lithium-ion and lead-acid…
Recovers critical, precious and rare-earth materials from e-scrap, printed circuit boards and battery black mass using processes beyond…
Takes concentrated e-scrap, board, black mass or recovered fractions and refines them by furnace, fire-assay, electrolytic or comparable…
Keeps hardware that is still in production service running beyond OEM end-of-support, by holding spare-parts inventory, performing…
Moves data-bearing and high-value IT between sites under documented chain-of-custody controls: vetted drivers, GPS-tracked and sealed…
Renders data on storage media irrecoverable, sold as a discrete service with its own deliverable and its own certificate: software erasure…
Performs the physical retirement of IT estate on the client's own premises: power-down sequencing, de-cabling, de-racking, rack and cabinet…
14 further participant roles are defined in the taxonomy and have no published companies yet. See the full taxonomy
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