This Frankenstein does anything but scare the townspeople. Assembled from equipment made by a variety of companies, the Boulder County Recycling Center is a key to the county’s goal of achieving zero waste - “or darn near,” as county staff say - by 2025. “We are proud of our Frankenstein plant comprised of BHS, Binder, Bollegraf, Eriez, Hustler, Kinergy, Machinex,...

A Houston company's rare earth element recovery technologies could mean another future revenue stream for electronics processors. Startup company REEcycle has developed a chemical recycling process that extracts neodymium and dysprosium from magnets, including those used in electronics. As it works to refine that process, the company is also rolling out a mechanical system that quickly extracts magnets from hard...

A recent government approval is expected to bring Iron Mountain, which is already a giant in the world of data storage and destruction, further into the IT asset disposition business. Iron Mountain, a publicly traded company headquartered in Boston, announced that ITAD services have been added to its contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). That means the company's...

The founder of defunct processor Zloop is facing the possibility of decades in prison after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy and fraud charges. After a five-day trial, a federal jury has found Robert M. Boston, 54, of Hickory, N.C. guilty of four separate charges. Boston served as CEO of Zloop, a North Carolina e-scrap startup that failed and...

Plastic packaging producer Berry Global has joined The Recycling Partnership, a move it sees bringing direct benefits to the company and improvements to the recycling system as a whole. Evansville, Ind.-headquartered Berry Global (formerly known as Berry Plastics) recently joined the recycling nonprofit group as a funding partner. The publicly traded company, which is an integrated plastics reclaimer and end...

A Portland, Ore. reclaimer is making plans for a facility that would sort out less commonly recycled plastics coming from across the region. The Inlander newspaper reports Denton Plastics is looking at building a plastics recycling facility (PRF) to sort, wash and grind recycled plastics. The facility would feed material to the company's current location, which produces pellets for molding into...

An equipment company has given its intelligent robot a new task in a new workplace. The artificial intelligence sortation unit will recover six separate materials at a facility in the U.K. Eugene, Ore.-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) sold a Max-AI AQC (autonomous quality control) robot to U.K.-based industrial and commercial waste company Green Recycling. Max-AI units deployed in U.S. MRFs...

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has created a roadmap to guide electronics designers down the path of repair- and recycling-friendly devices. The organization promotes efforts to transition toward a circular economy on a global scale. Foundation staff recently wrote about their research and conclusions about designing electronics for the circular economy. Their write-up was published by the foundation's online journal, Circulate....

Scientists in India are working to refine the process of using microbes to extract metals from printed circuit boards. The Indian Express recently wrote about the work, which is being conducted by scientists at several colleges and universities in India. They've developed a process of immersing PCBs in a liquid enriched with various types of microbes, according to the newspaper....

Another company that uses RPET in thermoform packaging has been acquired by Graham Partners, a Philadelphia-based private investment firm. Less than a month ago, Graham Partners announced it has invested in EasyPak, a Massachusetts thermoform packaging producer that uses RPET. On Dec. 7, Graham Partners announced its acquisition of Tray-Pak, a Pennsylvania-based company. Graham Partners acquired Tray-Pak from Archbrook Capital...