Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Boston-headquartered Iron Mountain acquired Cork, Ireland-based Wisetek, continuing its growth. | Sundry Photography / Shutterstock
Major publicly-traded IT asset disposition firm Iron Mountain has continued its recent string of acquisitions, with Wisetek joining the ranks of Regency Technologies and ITRenew as Iron Mountain assets.
Boston-headquartered ITAD firm Illumynt is opening three new facilities globally, thanks to a large contract. | Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock
Illumynt, a Boston-headquartered ITAD firm, has brought founder Paul Knight back to lead the company as CEO and shuffled other leadership positions. The changes come as the company is opening three new facilities globally due to a large contract. Continue Reading
The Pennsylvania location joins three existing Sage facilities in Columbus, Ohio, and, pictured here, Reno, Nevada. | Photo courtesy Sage
Sage Sustainable Electronics is preparing to start up an ITAD processing center in Pennsylvania, increasing the reuse-centered company’s processing capacity by 25%. Continue Reading
A federal judge recently ruled that Kevin Shibilski, a former executive at 5R Processors, was appropriately sentenced. | Proxima Studio/Shutterstock
A federal judge recently rejected an appeal by the leader of failed Wisconsin e-scrap firm 5R Processors, who is currently serving a sentence for tax crimes. Continue Reading
Changes in pricing for various metals largely balanced each other out this year, e-scrap industry experts noted. | Iryna-Imago/Shutterstock
Prices for key e-scrap metals have experienced a wild ride this year, and the shifts in value have piled onto global trade regulations and ongoing dematerialization to create a challenging economic picture for the industry. Continue Reading
Logitech reported using 30,800 tons of post-consumer recycled plastic in 2023. | Hernan E. Schmidt/Shutterstock
Logitech upped its use of recycled plastic last year, including e-plastics recovered from end-of-life electronics, according to its recently released impact report. Continue Reading
The province’s four-year pilot program will become permanent on April 1. | Butenkov Aleksei/Shutterstock
Canada’s oldest provincial electronics recycling program will add more than 500 device types to its accepted materials list, making permanent a pilot program that’s been under way for four years. Continue Reading
The U.S. EPA is working on a Battery Collection Best Practices and Battery Labeling Guidelines project, which will provide a toolkit for local governments to use when implementing battery collection programs, among other deliverables. | Chepko-Danil-Vitalevich/Shutterstock
The U.S. EPA has held a series of expert working groups, aiming to find the most effective strategies to keep batteries out of the garbage and recycling streams. For a growing number of municipalities, including one major U.S. city, that is coming to mean offering the convenience of curbside collection.
Iron Mountain reported data center decommissioning activities are increasing in demand, largely attributed to the rise of AI services requiring refreshes to bring in state-of-the-art equipment. | Bandersnatch/Shutterstock
Major ITAD provider Iron Mountain reported second-quarter revenue growth of 30% over the prior year, which company leaders attributed to higher business volume and improved used component pricing. Continue Reading
ERI reintroduced 120.39 million pounds of commodities into the economy and processed 3.6 million pounds of electronics for reuse in 2023. | SibFilm/Shutterstock
Of the 124 million pounds of e-scrap nationwide processor ERI collected last year, 97% was processed for commodity recovery and the remaining 3% went to reuse. That was one takeaway from the company’s latest sustainability report. Continue Reading