Houston E-Waste Report 2026

Equipment Breakdown

Desktop PCs and laptops were the most common items. Together, they made up nearly half of all equipment processed.

Industry Breakdown

Healthcare and education produced the largest shares of recycled equipment. Regular refresh cycles and compliance needs helped drive those totals.

Methodology & Data Sources

The notes below explain how we produced this report. They describe what the data includes and excludes. They also explain how we counted, weighed, classified, and checked each record. Review these limits before you quote the findings.

Scope

This report covers business and residential electronics handled at our Sugar Land facility from January 1 through December 31, 2026. It includes equipment from eight Greater Houston counties. They are Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, Chambers, Liberty, Waller, and Montgomery.

How items were counted

We record each piece of scanned equipment as one item, regardless of size. A laptop, server, monitor, or network switch each counts as one. Our intake team counts bulk items on standard dock sheets. These loads may include cables, keyboards, mice, and small accessories. We estimate badly damaged or incomplete items to the nearest ten and note the variance.

How weight was measured

We weigh business pickups at the customer site or when they reach our Sugar Land facility. Residential drop-offs are weighed on a dock scale at intake. Both scales receive annual calibration against NIST-traceable reference weights. Report totals use gross intake weight before shredding, sorting, or downstream processing.

Industry classification

We assign industry categories from the customer profile in our CRM. Customers without an industry appear as "Other / Unclassified." They remain in the total item count and weight but do not appear in the industry chart. For customers in several fields, we use the primary billing industry.

Privacy & anonymization

This report does not show customer names, serial numbers, or personal information. We publish totals only at the industry and metro level. The source database is private and subject to our BAA and DPA obligations.

Known exclusions and limitations

This report excludes CRT monitors and televisions. It also excludes large batteries, medical devices with radioactive parts, and items returned without processing. Industry totals are most accurate for business customers. We group residential records by ZIP code instead of industry.

Validation

At month-end, we compare item counts and weights with our inventory system and internal records. We review the intake scans when the difference is more than 2%. This check helps catch data-entry, counting, and weighing errors before publication.