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Greentec

Sponsored Reviewed and published by Ralph Lemos Updated Oct 15, 2026

Greentec is an IT asset disposition and electronics recycling company based in Cambridge, Ontario, founded in 1995 by Tony Perrotta.

The company collects retired IT equipment from businesses and public bodies, destroys the data on it, and refurbishes or recycles the hardware. Tony Perrotta is the company's chief executive.

In 2022 Greentec became the first in Canada certified to R2v3, an electronics recycling standard.

Not to be confused with GreenTek Solutions, which buys and sells used IT equipment, GreenTec Auto, which replaces electric and hybrid car batteries, or Greentech Renewables, which supplies solar equipment.

Greentec

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Organization
foundingDate
1995
headquarters
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
industry
Cleantech
employees
51 to 200 (LinkedIn)
founder
Tony Perrotta
Updated Oct 15, 2026 Official profiles

What Greentec does

  • Pickup

    Greentec collects IT equipment and electronic waste from a client's site. The company's white-glove service also audits the assets and destroys the data on site.

  • IT asset disposal

    The company records each device down to its serial number, then resells the devices that have value.

  • Data destruction

    Greentec erases drives with licensed software to US government standards and shreds any drive that fails the wipe or has no resale value.

  • Data center decommissioning

    The company resells retired servers, storage and crypto-mining hardware, including machines packed with graphics processors.

  • Electronics recycling

    Bulk electronic waste goes to downstream partners for processing, and each client receives a certificate of recycling by weight.

  • Batteries and lighting

    Greentec recycles lithium-ion and household batteries. The company also collects and recycles lighting under Ontario's Product Care program, with a minimum pickup of 100 kilograms per skid.

Sources

  1. Pickup
  2. IT asset disposal
  3. Secure destruction
  4. Data centre decommissioning
  5. Electronics recycling
  6. Battery and lighting

Who Greentec works with

  • Education

    School boards and universities use pickups that cover several schools at once. The University of Waterloo has used Greentec's IT asset disposal service.

  • Healthcare

    Greentec destroys data for hospitals, clinics and long-term care homes, with audit-ready documentation. Circle of Care, part of Sinai Health, is a client.

  • Businesses

    Companies with offices, data centers and remote teams receive reports on data security and on the value recovered from their equipment.

Ontario schools and public bodies can buy Greentec's services through OECM, a not-for-profit sourcing partner for the province's education and public sectors. OECM's agreement with Greentec covers electronic device disposal and recycling.

Greentec donates refurbished technology. Through their partner Makhos Inc., some of those donations go to Indigenous-led schools and enterprises across Ontario. Greentec's Phones4Food program turns donated phones into funding for the food bank in Waterloo Region.

Sources

  1. OECM
  2. OECM supplier page
  3. Education
  4. Healthcare
  5. Enterprise
  6. Google reviews
  7. Greentec ESG page
  8. Phones4Food

Credentials

i-SIGMA, the body that issues NAID AAA certification for secure information destruction, cited Greentec's certified status in 2019. NAID AAA audits, both scheduled and unannounced, check chain of custody and employee screening.

Greentec's R2v3 certification dates from 2022. Sustainable Electronics Recycling International sets the standard, which requires certified sites to secure devices and any data on them. The standard's public register does not yet confirm whether the certification is current.

Sources

  1. i-SIGMA, NAID AAA
  2. i-SIGMA, 2019
  3. SERI, R2v3
  4. Recycling Product News, 2022

Company claims

  • 30 years without a breach or violation

    Partially confirmed

    A web search finds no reported data breach, environmental violation, fine or lawsuit involving Greentec.

  • Carbon emissions saved

    Figures differ

    The figure is 83 million kilograms for 2025 on Greentec's sustainability page and more than 86 million in an undated company profile on i-SIGMA's event site.

  • OECM Platinum Partner

    Partially confirmed

    OECM lists Greentec as a supplier partner and names no tier.

  • Three ISO certifications

    Cannot be checked

    Greentec names no certifying body for any of the three, including ISO 14001 for environmental management.

  • Ontario approvals

    Not yet confirmed

    Not yet confirmed in the province's public registers. The two approvals named are permit 6247-6VDJUA to process electronic waste and registration as a processor with Ontario's Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority.

Sources

  1. Greentec industries
  2. Greentec ESG page
  3. i-SIGMA exhibitor profile
  4. OECM supplier page
  5. ISO 14001
  6. Greentec certifications

History

  1. 1995

    Tony Perrotta started Greentec, which first recycled ink and toner cartridges. Over the next decade he led several expansions, and the company gained ISO 14001 certification.

  2. 2000

    Greentec began collecting and recycling cellphones.

  3. 2002

    Five companies, one of them already named Greentec International, merged to form the current corporation.

  4. 2005

    Greentec expanded their cellphone and electronics recycling.

  5. 2010

    Greentec moved into an 83,000-square-foot facility and started IT asset disposition and high-volume electronics recycling.

  6. 2017

    Greentec's partnership with OECM began. By then the company held R2 certification for responsible recycling and NAID certification for information destruction.

  7. 2019

    Tony Perrotta joined i-SIGMA's board of directors.

  8. 2024

    Call2Recycle, an organization that runs battery recycling for producers, made Greentec their third battery sorting partner in Ontario, starting in May.

Sources

  1. Recycling Product News, 2020
  2. Greentec timeline
  3. Corporations Canada, corporation 411232-6
  4. i-SIGMA, 2019
  5. Call2Recycle Canada, 2024

Size and locations

Greentec's own facility is at 95 Struck Court in Cambridge, the address on their federal registration.

  • Partner facilities

    Greentec works through about 20 sites run by other companies, in Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver and in the US and Mexico.

  • Employees

    LinkedIn's company-size range for Greentec is 51 to 200 employees, and 107 LinkedIn members list Greentec as their employer.

Sources

  1. Corporations Canada, corporation 411232-6
  2. Greentec contact page
  3. LinkedIn

Registration

Legal name
GREENTEC INTERNATIONAL INC.
Corporation number
411232-6
Status
Active
Law
Canada Business Corporations Act
Type
Non-distributing corporation with 50 or fewer shareholders, so its shares are not sold to the public
Director
Antonio Perrotta (Tony Perrotta), sole director

From the Corporations Canada federal register. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

Official profiles

Company website
https://www.greentec.com/

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