Readers last month gravitated toward negative news, with the largest number of clicks going to stories about a fake R2 certificate, a 15-month prison sentence and industry bankruptcies.
Readers last month gravitated toward negative news, with the largest number of clicks going to stories about a fake R2 certificate, a 15-month prison sentence and industry bankruptcies.
Australia’s largest city considers curbside e-scrap pickups, and a Hong Kong court sentences a man to jail for e-scrap storage law violations.
Oregon regulators have fined Total Reclaim more than $160,000 for allegedly violating hazardous waste laws, but the e-scrap processor denies the allegations and has appealed the penalty.
Chesapeake Paper Systems of Baltimore; Rogue Shred of White City, Ore.; Secure Records Management Systems of Sanford, Maine; Secure Shredding and Recycling of Baton Rouge, La.; Super Save Shredding of Surrey, British Columbia and The Shredding Company of Walkersville, Md. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Guardian Data Destruction of South Hackensack, N.J. and HiTech Assets of Oklahoma City have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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An e-scrap startup reflects on its first half-decade, and a Filipino writer cautions lawmakers to adopt e-scrap legislation in the interest of public health.
One city refuses to reinstate its electronics recycling program despite residents’ frustration, and remote Alaska receives attention for e-scrap cleanups.
Whenever Apple indicates a new product release, device-recovery firms join in on the wider consumer market chatter. But in the runup to this fall’s release of the next iPhone, the recycling and repair buzz – and anxiety – is even more charged than normal.
More details have emerged on PC Rebuilders & Recyclers’ bankruptcy case after a summary of the company’s assets and debts was filed in Illinois bankruptcy court this week.
Fearing a veto from the governor, Illinois stakeholders are attempting to iron out last-minute changes to legislation that would reshape the state’s e-scrap law by requiring manufacturers to fund recycling of all covered material collected through the program.
An environmental nonprofit group teams with iFixit to assess how electronics brands are doing when it comes to creating repairable products. And grant money is on the table for e-scrap collection efforts in one state.
