E-Scrap News readers in September were overwhelmingly drawn to coverage of a lawsuit targeting Closed Loop Refining and Recovery and two of its CRT material suppliers.
E-Scrap News readers in September were overwhelmingly drawn to coverage of a lawsuit targeting Closed Loop Refining and Recovery and two of its CRT material suppliers.
A modular phone maker receives significant new capital, and an investment manager advises shareholders to push companies away from exporting e-scrap.
Affiliated Van Lines DBA File Thirteen of Lawton, Okla.; Hanna Paper Recycling of Mansfield, Mass.; River City Shredding of Ringgold, Ga.; SAFESHRED of Commerce, Calif. and Southeast Secure Shredding of Vero Beach, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Greentec of Cambridge, Ontario has achieved its NAID certification for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Last Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of industry experts took to the stage in Orlando to discuss the trends and challenges shaping electronics recovery right now. Here are some of the most compelling pieces of information we took away from those talks.
Around 1,200 electronics recovery professionals gathered last week for North America’s largest sector event. Our photo slideshow offers a taste of the networking, education and industry connection that took place over three busy days.
American Document Destruction of Sparks, Nev.; Data Guardian of Portage, Mich.; File Pro of Corpus Christi, Texas; Hill’s Shred Express of Ocala, Fla.; Stevens & Stevens BRM of Greenville, S.C.; The DocShop (Vic) Pty Ltd. of Traralgon, Victoria, Australia; The Information Management Group of Wellington, New Zealand; and WesTex Document Inc. of Lubbock, Texas have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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A firm releases a list of common problems auditors come across in e-scrap processing facilities, and Apple boosts its repair prices.
A new phone gets a rock-bottom score when it comes to repairability, and a Kansas program finds a creative way to reuse scrap electronic components.
DataSavers of Jacksonville, Fla.; E-Waste Security of Irvine, Calif.; Jabil of Memphis, Tenn.; Rapid Shred of Grandville, Mich.; Shred Doc Destr dba Balcones Shred of Austin, Texas; Shred-Ex of Colchester, Vt. and Shred Masters of South Ogden, Utah have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Almost all survey respondents in China say they’re storing unwanted electronics, and a study shows explosive growth in the generation of scrap phones and computers in India.
