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Equipment Spotlight: Platform helps workers rise to the task

Published: April 28, 2022
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Wearwell's FOUNDATION product of steps made with recycled plastic.

Wearwell has released an industrial platform with 100% post-consumer PP tiles that workers walk and stand on. | Courtesy of Wearwell

Smyrna, Tenn.-based manufacturer Wearwell developed a platform for workers, allowing them to avoid tripping hazards and elevating them up to the level of equipment they’re working on. And the product itself is made from recycled plastic.

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Certification Scorecard: April 21, 2022

Published: April 20, 2022
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The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently:

Chun Yang International (HK) of Hong Kong, China; Dataknox Solutions of Newark, Calif.; Ecotronix Recycling of Carol Stream, Ill.; eWorks Electronic Services of Freeport, N.Y.; GER Solutions of Allentown, Pa.; Jada Green (dba Cellit Green) of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Norris Technologies of Coahuila, Mexico; Reboot Tech of City of Industry, Calif.; Smart Metals Recycling (dba Sprout) locations in Garland, Texas, Statesville, N.C. and Taunton, Mass.; SMR Asset Recovery (dba Sprout) of Woodland, Calif.; Southern Environmental Solutions of the Carolinas of Chesterfield, S.C.; Startouch Trading of Lincoln Park, Mich.; and TES-AMM Espana Asset Recovery and Recycling of Madrid.

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.

Beacon Secure of Tucson, Ariz.; California Electronic Asset Recovery of Mather, Calif.; Corporate Records Management of Dallas; DocuBit of Lancaster, Ky.; Easter Seals (dba EnviroShred) of East Hartford, Conn.; Human-I-T of Detroit; Metro Record Storage and Shredding of Bakersfield, Calif.; Paper Storm of Pillager, Minn.; Stonehouse Data Solutions of Powell, Wyo.; and Valley Green Shredding of Westfield, Mass.

Visit our archive to view previous editions of the scorecard.

 

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Environmental Reclaim

Our top stories from March 2022

Published: April 7, 2022
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Aerial view of a Denver neighborhood with city skyline in background.

News that some of the technology world’s big names are funding an electronics collection effort in Denver was of interest to readers last month. | Arina P Habich/Shutterstock

A Denver doorstep collection program, accusations of accounting impropriety, military-funded e-scrap research and more drew our readers’ attention last month.

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