North Fort Worth recycler
Reported 202510M+ lb/year
≈ >5,000 short tons
Reported annual facility throughput; not office-only or citywide tonnage.
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2026 DFW snapshot
How DFW Offices Are Recycling Their E-Waste
What local public records and commercial operators reveal about retired electronics—and what still needs to be measured by the businesses doing the pickups.
Read the numbers with the right denominator
DFW does not currently publish one clean, current, business-only e-waste total by city. This page therefore shows public benchmarks with their dates and scope attached. Facility throughput, city operations, resident drop-offs, and a healthcare-system report are useful signals—but they are not interchangeable.
Published local benchmarks
The public record is fragmented—but useful
These are the strongest local figures found in the research pass. They show scale and data gaps, not a single market total.
Texas Health Resources
2014 report66,150 lb
≈ 33 short tons
Historical healthcare-system electronics total; included to show the type of internal data worth refreshing.
Read Texas Health report →Conversions use 2,000 pounds per short ton. “More than” figures remain qualified as reported; they are not presented as exact totals.
What is in the stream
The device mix is broader than “old computers”
Local recycler accepted-item pages and DFW school surplus documents point to a recurring mix of endpoints, displays, infrastructure, and peripherals.
Laptops and desktops
The most common endpoint refresh category for offices, campuses, and distributed workforces.
Supporting source →Monitors and displays
Often retired alongside endpoints during office moves, hybrid-work changes, and conference-room upgrades.
Supporting source →Servers and storage
Lower volume but higher data-handling sensitivity; common in data-center, server-room, and school refreshes.
Supporting source →Networking and telecom
Switches, routers, firewalls, access points, and phone systems are replaced during network refreshes.
Supporting source →Printers, copiers, and peripherals
These items accumulate in offices and schools but may have separate acceptance or fee rules.
Supporting source →UPS systems and batteries
Common in server rooms, telecom closets, and facilities operations; battery condition affects handling.
Supporting source →Pickup economics
There is no honest public “average cost per pickup” yet
GreenIT Pickup’s published customer price for a qualifying business IT equipment pickup is $0. That is not the same thing as the recycler’s internal route cost, the value of recovered equipment, or the price of optional services.
Local competitors publish different qualification rules: some distinguish computer/server loads from other materials, some publish small-load limits, and some charge for physical destruction or special handling. Without a shared sample and a defined denominator, an “average DFW pickup cost” would be marketing math rather than useful data.
Estimate your office’s load →How to turn this into original GreenIT data
01
Log the pickup
City, date, organization type, equipment categories, and pounds.
02
Define the denominator
Separate qualifying free pickups, paid add-ons, resale loads, and special handling.
03
Publish quarterly
Report counts, ranges, and methodology so the page stays linkable and defensible.
Is there a public 2026 DFW office e-waste total?
Not a reliable, consolidated one. Public sources publish different slices—resident drop-offs, city operations, individual healthcare systems, or recycler facility throughput. Those figures should not be added together as if they measure the same stream.
What does a qualifying pickup cost?
GreenIT Pickup advertises free pickup for qualifying business IT equipment loads. Paid services or special handling, such as physical drive crushing, are scoped separately. Other recyclers publish different qualification rules, so there is no defensible metro-wide average price from public pages alone.
How can this report become more useful?
Add GreenIT’s own 2026 pickup records: city, pickup date, equipment category, pounds, number of media-bearing devices, reuse outcome, and customer out-of-pocket charges. Publish an update only after the denominator and inclusion rules are documented.
Want your own office baseline?
Use the calculator for a planning estimate, then request a review if you have a real equipment list.