The Basel Action Network and Hong Kong officials spar over illegal dumpsites, and a city in India opens e-scrap drop-off centers.
The Basel Action Network and Hong Kong officials spar over illegal dumpsites, and a city in India opens e-scrap drop-off centers.
A New York City borough fights back against illegal dumpers of old electronics, and Best Buy joins a national effort to promote recycling.
Apto Solutions’ facility in Milpitas, Calif. Is now certified to the e-Stewards standard. The ITAD company’s facilities in Atlanta and Austin, Texas were already certified to the standard.
American Document Shredding LLC of Oklahoma City; Chesapeake Paper Systems of Baltimore; CLEARDATA – Gauteng of Johannesburg, South Africa; Datashredder Corp. of Foxboro, Mass.; IROW of Mosinee, Wisc.; Office Paper Systems, Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md.; Off-Site Records Management LLC of San Jose, Calif.; Record Keepers LLC of Fargo, N.D.; Rock Solid Shredding of Little Rock, Ark.;Safeguard Shredding LLC of Ft. Myers, Fla.; Secure Shredding and Recycling of Baton Rouge, La.; Shredlogix, Inc. of San Jose, Calif.;Shred Right (a Rohn Industries Co.) of St. Paul, Minn.; ShredTex of Houston; and Tri-State Shredding of Harrisburg, Pa. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
E-Scrap News has added OHSAS 18001 and NAID AAA into its certification directory, as well as moved the directory online. If your firm recently completed these certifications, a CHWMEG audit or an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, R2, RIOS or e-Stewards certification, e-mail [email protected] to be included in this section and in E-Scrap News’ directory. The full directory is available here.
California aims to raise the recycling fee it charges buyers of new electronics, and Illinois begins to restore some of its e-scrap collection programs.
LeMay Mobile Shredding – Vancouver of Vancouver, Wash. and Shredall Scotland of Glasgow, Scotland have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, DMD Systems Recovery, Inc. of Tempe, Ariz. has achieved its NAID certification for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
DMD is the first IT asset disposition company in the world to achieve NAID AAA certification for sanitization operations under a new audit methodology utilizing auditors accredited to conduct audits for other ISO standards. Under this alternate auditing option, DMD was able to achieve NAID Certification on the same day it renewed it environmental certification.
E-Scrap News has added OHSAS 18001 and NAID AAA into its certification directory, as well as moved the directory online. If your firm recently completed these certifications, a CHWMEG audit or an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, R2, RIOS or e-Stewards certification, e-mail [email protected] to be included in this section and in E-Scrap News’ directory. The full directory is available here.
E-scrap collection bins have been installed in an Indian coastal city, and Malaysian officials discuss the environmental damage caused by the improper disposal of electronics.
Our look at industry-related patents includes a technology that harnesses microwaves to recover precious metals.
Recently unveiled robotics technology aims to boost throughputs and reduce environmental and health risks from LCD flat-panel display recycling.
A New Jersey sheriff attempts to fight the widespread dumping of end-of-life electronics, and a modular smartphone could be coming from Motorola.
AAI SecureDocs of Minneapolis; Absolute Data Shredding of Norman, Okla.; Absolute Document Destruction & Storage of Baton Rouge, La.; Ace Data Storage, Inc. of Gulfport, Miss.; Computer Recycling Center of Springfield, Mo.; Eagle Secure Shredding & Doc Mgmt, LLC of Tucker, Ga.; Gone for Good of Birmingham, Ala.; Northeast Record Retention, LLC of Hooksett, N.H.; Secure Shred Solutions, LLC of Carroll, Iowa; and ShredQuick, Inc. of Bradenton, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Li Tong Group of Hong Kong and PCs for People of St. Paul, Minn. have renewed their NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
E-Scrap News has added OHSAS 18001 and NAID AAA into its certification directory, as well as moved the directory online. If your firm recently completed these certifications, a CHWMEG audit or an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, R2, RIOS or e-Stewards certification, e-mail [email protected] to be included in this section and in E-Scrap News’ directory. The full directory is available here.