About Klean Recycling

About Klean Recycling

Klean Recycling is an electronics recycling and urban mining business. We buy end-of-life devices, break them down, and return the recovered materials to industry. Klean Recycling is wholly owned by Klean Industries.

What we do

Our work starts where a device stops being useful. Urban mining takes discarded devices and breaks them down into recoverable, usable materials, and that is the process we run: hardware in, sorted material fractions out. We publish a devices price list so owners know what we pay, and we explain on our elements pages what is recovered once a device is processed. Both sides of the transaction are visible before you commit to anything.

The problem we were built for

Every year up to 140,000 tonnes of electronic waste are disposed of in Canadian landfills, and electronic waste is the fastest-growing waste the world creates. Those two facts define the opportunity and the urgency. Material that has already been mined and refined once is being buried at increasing volume while primary extraction continues elsewhere to replace it. Our answer is to make recycling the commercially obvious choice by paying for the hardware rather than charging to remove it.

How we are different

Two things separate us from a conventional collection service. The first is that we pay rather than charge, which changes the economics of recycling for the owner and removes the main reason devices sit unused. The second is that we are an urban mining operation rather than a logistics operation: our interest is in what a device is made of, so hardware that is broken, incomplete or long obsolete is still worth something to us. Together those two points turn an unpleasant disposal chore into a straightforward transaction.

Recognised work

Klean Recycling recycles e-waste, and that work has been featured in a CNN video. We point to it not as decoration but as evidence that the process is real, operating and visible to an outside audience — a useful thing in a sector where claims are easier to make than to verify.

Backed by an industrial parent

Being wholly owned by Klean Industries puts a resource-recovery engineering group behind our operations. Klean Industries designs, engineers and delivers facilities that convert waste streams into materials and energy, with a portfolio of completed resource-recovery projects internationally. For an electronics recycler that means access to process engineering, supply-chain management and the long-term market knowledge that determines where recovered fractions actually go. It is the difference between collecting devices and genuinely mining them.