The battery recycling market is predicted to grow due to government regulation, and Australians hold onto their old electronics rather than recycling them.
The battery recycling market is predicted to grow due to government regulation, and Australians hold onto their old electronics rather than recycling them.
Blue-Pencil Mobile Shredding of Oakville, Ontario; Confidential On-Site Paper Shredding (COPS) of Normal, Ill.; Goodwill Southern California Secure Shredding of Los Angeles; Infoshred of East Windsor, Conn.; Ingram Micro of Pine Brook, N.J.; Secure Document Solutions of Independence, Mo.; Stevens & Stevens Business Records Mgmt of Clearwater, Fla. and Vanish Document Shredding of Houston have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Former employees of E-Waste Systems have yet to be paid over $240,000 in court-ordered compensation. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently took action against the short-lived publicly traded company.
Kyle Wiens of iFixit speaks at E-Scrap 2017.
Repair is a growing portion of the e-scrap field, and experts predict it will continue to increase as companies learn the revenue that can be realized by reusing rather than shredding certain good-quality components.
E-Scrap News readers in September were overwhelmingly drawn to coverage of a lawsuit targeting Closed Loop Refining and Recovery and two of its CRT material suppliers.
A modular phone maker receives significant new capital, and an investment manager advises shareholders to push companies away from exporting e-scrap.
Affiliated Van Lines DBA File Thirteen of Lawton, Okla.; Hanna Paper Recycling of Mansfield, Mass.; River City Shredding of Ringgold, Ga.; SAFESHRED of Commerce, Calif. and Southeast Secure Shredding of Vero Beach, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Greentec of Cambridge, Ontario has achieved its NAID certification for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Joe Pickard speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference.
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been volatile of late. Such uncertainty could continue as China considers limits on taking in some metal grades.
A second e-scrap company has been released from an Arizona CRT abandonment lawsuit targeting upstream suppliers of the material.
Future funding levels for the U.S. EPA are one step closer to certainty after lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives approved government spending outlined in a dozen agency-specific budget bills this month.
