Recycling Services | Chicago Recycling Center

Electronics recycling and secure data destruction for businesses across the Midwest. Headquartered in Addison, IL — part of the STS Recycling Family.

From a one-truck operation to a national family of brands.

Chicago Recycling Center began with one person noticing a gap. Back in 2008, Mark Domnenko started his entrepreneurial journey in the Chicago area, working hands-on in local services and seeing how much usable IT gear was being dumped, hoarded in closets, or shipped overseas without any real accountability for what was on the drives.

In 2011, Mark founded AVA Recycling, the anchor company that would shape everything that came after. AVA grew into one of the Chicago area's largest electronics recycling and IT asset disposition operators. The pitch was simple: pick the gear up on time, document every asset, destroy the data in a way an auditor can defend, and never be the company that lets a hard drive walk.

In 2025, the brands and assets merged into the STS Recycling Family when STS acquired AVA Recycling's IP and operations. Today, Chicago Recycling Center is operated by STS Electronic Recycling, Inc. out of Addison, IL, serving clients throughout the Midwest.

An on-site hard drive crusher.

Our Addison, IL facility is equipped with an on-site hard drive crusher, providing witnessed physical destruction that meets DoD-standard requirements. No drives leave the facility intact. The operation uses DoD-approved and HIPAA-approved devices for data destruction, attributable to the STS relationship.

Compliant 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, degaussing, punching, shredding), and a signed Certificate of Destruction at the end of every job.

Electronics are processed through STS Electronic Recycling, Inc.'s R2v3-certified facility. No materials are knowingly disposed of in landfills, and nothing is knowingly exported in violation of applicable regulations.