Recycling Services | Chicago Recycling Center

Electronics recycling and secure data destruction for businesses across the Midwest. Headquartered in Addison, IL.

A Chicago recycling brand with a focused history.

Chicago Recycling Center serves businesses throughout the Midwest with electronics recycling, secure data destruction, and IT asset disposition. Its story includes AVA Recycling's work in the Chicago area.

AVA Recycling was founded in 2011, with electronics recycling and IT asset disposition work in the Chicago area.

AVA Recycling's IP and operations changed hands in 2025.

An on-site hard drive crusher.

Witnessed hard drive destruction on site. See the full process on our Pick Up page.

Documented by design.

We process end-of-life IT assets for healthcare systems, law firms, universities, Fortune 500 IT departments, K-12 districts, and municipalities across the Midwest. Standard work includes scheduled pickup, chain-of-custody documentation, asset tagging, data destruction (wiping, punching, shredding), and a signed Certificate of Destruction at the end of every job.

Electronics move through documented downstream channels. No materials are knowingly disposed of in landfills.