The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently:

BC Recycling of Goodyear, Ariz.; two Entreprise École Recypro d’Argenteuil locations in Lachute, Quebec; Galide (dba Just Mac) of Houston; Ming Refinery of New Territories, Hong Kong, China; Renew IT Group of Lane Cove West, New South Wales, Australia; RET3 Job Corp. of Cleveland; and Stream Recycling Solutions of Plant City, Fla.

After completing successful audits, the organizations listed below achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices. Blue Star Recyclers of Denver; Data Guardian of Portage, Mich.; Global Ewaste Solutions of Plymouth, Minn.; all Iron Mountain locations in the U.S. and Canada; RSR Partners (dba Regency Technologies) of Tumwater, Wash.; ShredHub of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Vanish Document Shredding of Houston.