On December 1, 2016, ZLOOP, Inc. went out of business as per its Chapter 11 liquidation filing under bankruptcy. ZLOOP, Inc. owns and operates computer and electronics recycling facilities in the United States. The company provides end of life recycling services for electronics and electrical equipment from cell-phones to computers to blenders, coffee brewers, and others by transforming equipment into feeder-stock commodities. It also offers onsite or offsite physical and/or electronic data destruction services, which include data wiping, data degaussing, shredding, and destroying of hard drives, back-up tapes, CDs, cell phones, PDAs, memory devices, and x-rays. In addition, the company provides recycling services for pre-consumer plastics, post-consumer plastics, and mixed plastics, such as plastic separation, metal detection, granulation, dusting, and shipping. It serves consumers, small businesses, corporations, and government entities. ZLOOP, Inc. was formerly known as EZ Computer Recycling, LLC. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Hickory, North Carolina with locations in Perrysburg, Ohio; and Fernley, Nevada.