Services

Specific examples of Wuf services include:

	Recycling Surplus Electronics
	Recycling Universal Wastes
	Logistics and Transportation
	Recycling Facility Design and Operations

As a manager of corporate electronic assets, you’re expected to satisfy multiple and often conflicting needs in managing surplus electronic equipment. These can include the following.

	Controlling disposal costs.
	Identifying revenue generating opportunities.
	Assuring software and data security.
	Donating usable equipment to needy individuals or organizations.
	Guaranteeing that used equipment is tracked and destroyed.
	Eliminating potential environmental or financial liabilities for improper disposal.

Meanwhile, trying to attract your attention and business, there are literally hundreds of electronics recyclers in the United States. They offer services that range from remarketing, to donation, to "demanufacturing" (to recover chips, hard drives, etc.), to shredding for commodity recovery, to smelting and refining. Quoted recycling prices and/or revenue returns can vary by orders of magnitude for a single lot of equipment, and from one lot of equipment to the next. Evaluating competing service offerings, and then matching these to corporate priorities and constraints (especially as these change over time or for different types of equipment) is a confusing and daunting task.

Wuf cuts through this confusion. We work with and for you to help evaluate and prioritize your recycling needs and goals, match these against a database of dozens of for- and non-profit recyclers, and select the one or several recycling options that optimize achievement of your asset management priorities. 

We don’t represent one asset management solution. We represent many, and our business is to match your firm and your waste stream to the solution or combination of solutions that best fits your needs. Wuf then follows through with contracts, packing and transportation, material tracking, and other aspects of a complete recycling program, one that’s fully integrated into your established surplus property and asset management procedures.

Fluorescent batteries, fluorescent ballasts, and batteries are another troublesome waste stream. Defined by the federal and state governments as "universal" wastes, they can’t be disposed of with other nonhazardous trash, but they don’t require handling and treatment under the full range of hazardous waste regulations and procedures. In this odd regulatory cranny, they can be confusing and expensive to deal with.

Wuf Technologies represents a secure and cost-effective recycling option for these waste items. By pooling tonnage from dozens of generators, we have negotiated quite favorable rates on our clients’ behalf from a number of state- and federally-certified recyclers. 

	We set up convenient and low-cost transportation procedures.
	We can provide DOT- approved containers and packaging.
	We certify compliance with state and federal transportation and end-use management and recycling requirements, and provide accompanying documentation.

Especially when paired with our electronics management services, Wuf offers a simple, secure, and cost effective management solution for universal wastes.

LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION

Logistics and transportation are too-often unrecognized as an economic drain in managing surplus electronics and universal wastes. Waiting until they show up at the loading dock and then arranging their transport and disposal isn’t the best strategy. 

Electronics tend to get sidetracked into closets and storerooms, where they can lose 15-50% of their residual value for every month they sit. They are bulky but fragile to handle and transport, with the result that many firms are hit with multiple less-than-truckload freight rates, high handling costs, and costs for damaged or rejected loads.

Wuf Technologies logistics services can help short circuit these issues. Wuf can:

	help optimize procedures for getting electronics and universals out of service and into recycling channels as quickly and cost effectively as possible
	routinely arrange transportation services to optimize cost and convenience (including spotting collection trailers at a generator location and setting up loads that combine electronics with universals)
	provide packaging and handling supplies matched to generator procedures. We work one-on-one with generators to eliminate costs and inefficiencies in internal material handling procedures.

It’s a simple business model: The happier you are with Wuf services, start to finish, the more likely to keep us on account, to our benefit and yours.

RECYCLING FACILITY DESIGN AND OPERATIONS.

There are almost as many electronics recycling techniques and technologies as there are electronics recyclers. As electronics recycling has developed, individual recyclers have developed and refined their own recycling techniques, some adapted from pre-existing expertise or technology from related fields, some developed from scratch in response to specific business opportunities.

Wuf enjoys the advantage of having evaluated essentially every electronics recycling technology now available, and having reviewed new technologies under development, without being wedded to any specific technology or set of recycling techniques. Wuf's knowledge base spans a broad range of technologies for:

equipment shredding	material separation
plastics sorting and separation	monitor glass recovery

assembly line and single unit demanufacturing.

	equipment selection
	facility layout
	operations planning, and
	staffing.

In addition, Wuf has carried out detailed business and financial planning for electronics recycling facilities under alternative operating scenarios. This work has included modeling the impacts on business and financial performance of:

	alternative choices regarding recycling technologies
	alternative input streams, and alternative outputs, as well as variables such as interest rates
	wage scales
	property rental and construction costs
	and similar items.

With extensive knowledge and contacts among large scale generators of surplus electronic equipment, Wuf has also carried out the supporting market analyses necessary to justify business planning and development decisions for existing and planned electronics recycling operations.