What methods are used to track equipment through the e-waste recycling process?

What methods are used to track equipment through the e-waste recycling process?

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We use a propriety tracking method, a bar code tracking method that we created ourselves. It's a cradle-to-grave tracking methodology. When the e-waste comes in, we bar code it, we weigh it, and we follow it through the entire process in our facility until it's broken down into its bare commodities and sold for future reuse.