Legislation championed by electronics repair advocates failed to advance in the New York legislature this year.
Legislation championed by electronics repair advocates failed to advance in the New York legislature this year.
A Chinese e-scrap company breaks into the U.S. market, and collections continue to trend downward in the Evergreen State.
Absolute Shredding of Windsor, Colo.; Advanced Information Management of Springdale, Ark.; Arkansas Records Management of Hot Springs, Ark.; CI Information Management of Kennewick, Wash.; CLI Document Destruction of Norwalk, Ohio; COR365 Information Solutions of Winston-Salem, N.C.; Green Team Shred-Safe of Pooraka, South Australia, Australia; Highland Shredding of Woburn, Mass.; In Confidence P/L of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Kodiak Information Management of Lynchburg, Va.; Lemay Mobile Shredding–Vancouver of Vancouver, Wash.; Modern Waste of Sacramento, Calif.; REISSWOLF Heesch B.V. of Heesch, Netherlands; Republic Services of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; R.K. Black of Oklahoma City; SafeGuard Document Destruction of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Secured Document Shredding of Midland, Texas; Shred 360 of Tampa, Fla.; Super Shred of Greenville, N.C. and Tong-In Safe Warehouse of Paju City, South Korea have either achieved or renewed their NAID Certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Nearly 959 million smartphones will be shipped in 2013, according to the latest estimates from International Data Corp.
An app dubbed Mr. WEEE aims to educate the Egyptian public on how to recycle electronics, and customs officials use X-ray machines to check imports into China.
Recently released federal regulations will require e-scrap businesses and others in high-hazard industries to keep detailed logs of workplace-related injuries.
CRT glass may be heading to California landfills — legally.
An in-depth piece exploring the landfilling of CRT glass in California drew E-Scrap News readers’ attention in May.
Two executives of a Colorado electronics recycling firm were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to allegations that it illegally exported over 100,000 end-of-life CRTs overseas.
A U.S. ban on the export of some types of e-scrap to developing countries could create as many as 42,000 new jobs — at least according to a new study commissioned by the Coalition for American Electronics Recycling.