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The Basel Action Network recently publicized a Thai government decision making official a previously announced ban on e-scrap imports. | KAMONRAT/Shutterstock
The Basel Action Network this week announced changes in an overseas e-scrap import policy, and the group said an OEM broke its own policies by shipping several low-value devices to Guatemala.
News that a rare earth recycler had received federal funding caught attention last month. | Courtesy of Urban Mining Co.
Readers last month were most drawn to a story about a rare earth recycling venture that received nearly $30 million in federal backing. A new data center play from Sims also garnered clicks.
Among the services iFixit is now offering are design-for-repair workshops for engineers and sustainability teams. | Hand Robot/Shutterstock
Repair hub iFixit launched a service through which the organization will work with OEMs to help them design devices for greater repairability.
The Genesis unit in use erasing, testing and repairing drives. | Courtesy of Ultratest Solutions.
Amid growing data security concerns, U.K.-based Ultratec has seen greater reluctance among its customers to ship unwiped drives to Ultratec’s plants for data sanitization. Bringing drive processing capabilities to customers’ sites alleviates those concerns.
Gold prices reached nearly $2,000 a troy ounce in August. | savva_25/Shutterstock
Driven by investors, gold prices have remained high throughout the year, even hitting a recent record high this quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Fire officials told a local TV station they believe batteries started the blaze at Cleanlites Recycling facility. | Nuroon Jampaklai/Shutterstock
A fire caused significant damage at an e-scrap recycling facility in Mason, Mich. last weekend, according to local news.
Retroworks de Mexico launched in 2007, associated with U.S. processor American Retroworks. | Photo courtesy Robin Ingenthron.
After 13 years, Retroworks de Mexico will turn off the lights and shut the door next month. But the CRT processor was no failure. Continue Reading
After completing successful audits, the following organizations achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices.
Apto Solutions of Austin, Texas; Columbus Secure Shredding of Salt Lake City; Firelands Local of Norwalk, Ohio; Secure Shredding and Recycling of Baton Rouge, La.; ShredTex of Houston and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla.
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Kevin Shibilski is the latest former leader of 5R Processors to face criminal charges. | Tridsanu Thopet/Shutterstock
In July, a former 5R Processors executive alleged he was the victim of a fraud scheme perpetrated by other 5R leaders and a local bank. Now, that former CEO has been indicted on federal criminal charges.