For e-scrap success, a key is staying on top of technology shifts. That fact is exemplified by an East Coast processor that has evolved its data destruction process of late.
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].For e-scrap success, a key is staying on top of technology shifts. That fact is exemplified by an East Coast processor that has evolved its data destruction process of late.
R2 Corporation was still a new face in Houston when Hurricane Harvey struck Texas’s largest city about a year ago, bringing with it devastating flooding. But that didn’t stop R2 Corporation from going above and beyond to help.
Advanced Technology Recycling opened a Las Vegas ITAD facility and relocated its Salt Lake City-area site into a larger space.
Trucks outside ERI’s Fresno, Calif. recycling facility.
ERI is using machinery with artificial intelligence to sort materials coming out of a shredder. It’s the first publicly known case of an AI robotic system sorting e-scrap.
A photo from court records shows CRT glass stored outside Stone Castle Recycling’s Clearfield, Utah facility.
A former e-scrap executive has been sentenced to one year in a federal prison for storing hazardous CRT waste without a permit.
The ITAD arm of a Canadian electronics leasing company has opened a new processing facility near Vancouver, B.C. Continue Reading
California’s e-scrap program took a hit when ECS Refining closed in June 2018, but it was anything but a critical blow. Other local and national e-scrap companies took up the slack.
A larger Middle East location is allowing Sims Recycling Solutions to process growing quantities of electronics while improving security and reducing the risk of employee injury.
Artist Zayd Menk works on a model of London’s Westminster area, crafted entirely from e-scrap.
A teenage artist collaborated with a U.K. ITAD services provider to create a miniature version of London’s Westminster area – made entirely from e-scrap.
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Tech Dump is rolling out what it describes as the only national mail-in recycling program that’s owned and operated by a social enterprise.