A Los Angeles-based processor that hires formerly incarcerated people grabs attention, and Samsung explains what exactly caused its flagship mobile device to overheat. Continue Reading
A Los Angeles-based processor that hires formerly incarcerated people grabs attention, and Samsung explains what exactly caused its flagship mobile device to overheat. Continue Reading
The number of R2 certified facilities is booming, according to the latest tally of facilities from R2 Solutions.
The Basel Action Network has announced that, effective immediately, the e-Stewards standard will now include all the elements of the R2 standard.
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Illinois-based electronics recycling firm Intercon Solutions has become the first processor to be denied e-Stewards Certification for what the Basel Action Network says is “compelling evidence” that the company exported electronic waste to Hong Kong.
Multinational electronic components supplier Arrow Electronics has reached a three-year agreement with the Basel Action Network to certify all of Arrow’s electronics recycling and IT asset recovery operations worldwide to the e-Stewards standard.
In an interview with E-Scrap News, an executive at Arrow Value Recovery says the company will complete its global implementation of the e-Stewards standard at all of its facilities by 2015, and a spokesperson offers new insight on the special circumstances involved in certifying the company’s many locations.
SERI says it has launched a number of initiatives in the wake of a tracking report from the Basel Action Network that found a host of recycling companies shipping devices overseas.
Even though we can’t see the “cloud” in cloud computing, we can see the environmental effects, according to one blogger.
Problems with Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program continue to grab headlines as local programs restrict or halt collections.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city’s collection comes in Staten Island.