The Middle East finds itself in the “starting phase” of e-scrap management, and Europe’s ambitious electronics collection goals may prove challenging to meet.
The Middle East finds itself in the “starting phase” of e-scrap management, and Europe’s ambitious electronics collection goals may prove challenging to meet.
Residents fear a local government e-scrap collection program will harm charities, and recycling professionals describe the routes they took into the industry.
An Amazon personal assistant device is graded on its repairability, and a refurbished version of Samsung’s notorious overheating phone returns to the market in South Korea.
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.
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.
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.
