To celebrate Earth Day, Hesstech hosted electronics recycling collection events for its customers' in 4 separate states. Six events were scheduled on Earth Day. Three were held in Pennsylvania, and one each in Florida, New Jersey and Wisconsin. It is estimated that more than 80,000 pounds of electronics were collected.

Hesstech expands facility an additional 14,000 sq. ft. bringing total processing space to 65,000 sq. ft.. Due to an increase in demand and need for increased service provision, Hesstech expanded the facility by 14,000 sq. ft.. Most of the expansion was to accommodate a dedicated in-house multi-station data eradication center for parallel hard drive data destruction. The remainder of the facility is utilized for recycling processes. The result is faster and more efficient processing, tracking, and management of assets.

Hesstech was named one of only eight small business recyclers nationwide to be a Recycling Electronics Asset Disposition (READ) contractor. The READ designation means that public service/gov't entities can rely on Hesstech to provide environmentally responsible and proper handling of obsolete and decommissioned assets. Hesstech was also included because of its remarketing capability for the government's Share-in-Savings program.

Hesstech has earned a reputation not only as an industry leader, but also as a leading advocate for the environment. The criteria to win this award were based upon a company's ability to make a significant contribution toward achieving the state's recycling goals. Other criteria included supporting and promoting local or regional recycling programs. Companies were also judged based upon innovative processes, services, or collection methods.