California’s hike in the fee to fund electronics recycling is explained, and a repair advocacy group accuses OEMs of deflecting pressure to improve repairability.
California’s hike in the fee to fund electronics recycling is explained, and a repair advocacy group accuses OEMs of deflecting pressure to improve repairability.
Adelante Document Destruction of Albuquerque, N.M.; American Document Shredding of Oklahoma City; Corodata Shredding of San Jose, Calif.; DestruPack delegacion Valencia of Valencia, Spain; Destrupack S.L. of Barcelona, Spain; DocuGUARD of Enid, Okla.; DocuVault Delaware Valley of West Deptford, N.J.; Gestion Confidencial Destrupack of Madrid; Goodwill Industries of Northwest Texas of Lubbock, Texas; IROW of Mosinee, Wisc.; Lincoln Archives of Tonawanda, N.Y.; Pacific Shredding of Fresno, Calif.; Pacific Shredding of Sacramento, Calif.; Pacific Shredding of Stockton, Calif.; SecurShred of South Burlington, Vt.; Shred One Security Corp of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. and United Document Destruction and Storage of Reading, Pa. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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The former leaders of CRT outlet Closed Loop Refining and Recovery have been directed by a court to pay more than $18 million for breaking the lease at the company’s Columbus, Ohio headquarters and leaving behind more than 100 million pounds of CRT glass.
The EPEAT sustainable electronics program now includes mobile phones, providing assurance to buyers that the qualifying devices meet certain standards for end-of-life management.
Global e-commerce site eBay is honoring a California woman who immigrated from Colombia with nothing more than a suitcase and later co-founded a successful e-scrap company.
An initiative funded by the federal government could help solve a key materials recovery issue in e-scrap.
Last month, E-Scrap News readers were drawn to stories about changes at CRT downstream outlets and advancing program reform legislation in Illinois.
The group that administers the R2 certification has published advice to help certified companies comply with the electronics recycling standard’s requirements.
A bill replacing Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program has stalled until at least this fall, and a couple of e-scrap recycling efforts include a charitable bent.
A1 Shredding & Recycling of Marietta, Ga.; Absolute Data Shredding of Norman, Okla.; American Data Security of Oak Park, Mich.; Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling of Franklin, N.J.; Goodwill Data SHIELD of Greendale, Wisc.; Northeast Record Retention of Hooksett, N.H.; RDV Systems of Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; and Shred 360 of Irmo, S.C. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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