Michigan E-waste is green. creates jobs. saves landfills.

Michigan E-waste provides a sustainable e-waste solution to Michigan businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, churches, and indivuduals.

Under our brand name Castaway Recycling, we provide communities with public drop-off events for thier broken or unwanted electronic waste items. (For event scheduling, please shoot us an email).

Using our internal processes, we recover plastics and rare earth metals, preventing the misuse of our Michigan landfills, while creating jobs and giving back Michiganders and their offices some of its closet space. In the calendar year 2022, we prevented an average of 98% of the gross waste weight entering our facility from entering a landfill.

Pile of old computers and other electronic waste.

Amazing facts about Michigan E-waste

  • We accept a long list of unwanted electronics- see our examples
  • FREE service to businesses, nonprofits, government and private citizens
  • We provide drop off events throughout the state.
  • By weight, we reduce electronic waste deposits to landfill by 95%+
  • We recover valuable materials through responsible electronics recycling.
  • We offer a data safety guarantee agreement.
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Michigan E-waste at a glance:

Our passion is bifocal, in that our mission is to produce Michigan jobs by extracting waste value, while reducing the overall waste entering our landfills. .

Metal Values

Broken, unused or otherwise unwanted electronics contain a variery of metals, some of those of greater value. By extracting these metals, we produce the revenue to pay the labor to keep the program growing to new heights. For more info on the metals recovery, click the metals tab on the top, or click here

Commercial Cardboard

We are evaluating a separate cardboard-only collection program for local businesses. Share your interest while we assess demand and route feasibility.

Toll Refining

In the 2023 calendar year, we expect to begin offering toll refining of Royal Metals ONLY. When available, it will be announced by newsletter, blog, and social posts. There will be a minimum yield OR fee applicable.

Quick Contacts list

For scheduling events and commercial pick-ups:
Hunter Ulis, Event Coordinator

For media, metal or plastic sales::
Daniel Smith, General Manager