One of the country’s largest insurers recently purchased an on-site provider of smartphone and tablet repairs.
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Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected].One of the country’s largest insurers recently purchased an on-site provider of smartphone and tablet repairs.
EPC has opened a large processing site in Atlanta, improving its reach into the Southeastern U.S. market.
Part of URT’s CRT glass processing system in Janesville, Wis.
One of the country’s largest e-scrap companies is recycling CRT glass into a marketable product that could reduce the processor’s dependence on erratic downstream markets for leaded material.
Electronics repair-related bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country, but it’s still too early to know where – or if – they’ll gain traction.
With its integration of upstream shredding and separation systems and downstream refining processes, Colt Refining and Recycling is oriented toward maximizing e-scrap metals recovery.
Many e-scrap recycling firms target gold and silver but send lower-value plastics elsewhere for disposal or recycling.
Electronics keep getting smaller and lighter, but the Computer Recycling Center keeps boosting diverted weights each year.
When it was founded around the turn of the millennium, Sunnking saw device refurbishment as king.
Tech Dump employs 50 people, many of whom have struggled to find or maintain steady work.
For e-scrap recycling organization Tech Dump, it’s not all about the recycling. It’s also about the people doing the work.
Novus, which means “new” in Latin, is an appropriate name for this Georgia e-scrap processor. The company was founded only in 2016.