Interco works with electric organizations and electric cooperatives to recycle electric meters. Electric meter recycling in Fargo demonstrates to be an essential practice because of the noteworthy degree of changes with the advancing electric meter technology.
Analog electric meters once required a meter reader to stroll around neighborhoods, read the meters, and come back to the office. After this procedure, they needed to physically enter the data to process a receipt for the services. Inevitably, smart meters uprooted analog meters. Smart meters changed the process of information gathering for utility organizations.
The presentation of smart meters meant meter readers never again needed to walk house-to-house. They could drive a well-prepared van through an area and gather the information transmitted directly. Smart meters keep supplanting analog meters. Today manufacturers produce much smarter meters outfitted with 5G capacities. The new meters offer more precision and information security and can pinpoint the accurate locale of a meter inside a few feet or less.
Electric associations will have more obsolete meters in the following decade than in the previous 25 years combined on account of these updates in technology. Thus, associations must continue to recycle utility meters.

Preparing to Recycle Electric Meters
In order to recycle utility meters correctly, companies must understand the different types of meters:
- Analog meters with glass covers
- Digital meters with glass covers
- Digital meters with plastic covers
Why Recycle Electric Meters
After Interco gets the correctly bundled scrap utility meters without glass coverings, the method to recycle electric meters starts. Interco has many years of experience in electric meter recycling in Fargo. This experience licenses Interco to have up to a 98% material recycling and recovering rate. Interco will continue with this rate by:
- Detaching stainless steel rings and collars
- Refining all non-ferrous and ferrous metals
- Disconnecting circuit boards
- Baling cardboard boxes

- Insulated copper wire
- Aluminum ground wire
- Brass screws
- Printed circuit boards
- Steel