For ITAD and recycling industry stakeholders, the period reinforced policy priorities around product life, battery safety, packaging responsibility and cross-border electronics shipments.

An emerging pattern in North American electronics recycling raises questions.

Paladin EnviroTech has moved fast since its founding roughly a year and a half ago.

The electronics recycler is announcing its second owned-and-branded international operation in under six months.

Data center growth, EU product rules and new capital models are changing who controls retired electronics.

Windows OEM revenue is set to drop double digits, while the company added 31 new data centers during the last quarter.

Strong Apple revenue and education sales, with a supply crunch, point to a larger device returns wave ahead.

As a result ITAD firms should plan for two separate asset cycles.

The tech giant spent $44.9 billion in a single quarter building AI infrastructure, with major implications for the ITAD space.

The company’s 2025 Sustainability Overview tells a story both in the data it presents and in the data it omits.