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Several significant announcements have come from Clover Technologies Group in recent weeks. | matkub2499/Shutterstock
Clover Technologies Group will sell its used printer cartridge remanufacturing business before filing for bankruptcy to restructure its debt.
A total of 18 defendants have agreed to settle to date. | Chodyra Mike/Shutterstock
The field of companies fighting Closed Loop Refining and Recovery’s former Ohio landlords continues to decrease, after three more defendants agreed to settle.
Low unemployment rates are making it hard for recycling companies to find and keep reliable employees for entry-level jobs. | tadamichi/Shutterstock
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An initiative launched by e-Stewards will give 10 certified processors the training and support they need to successfully employ a workforce of developmentally disabled adults.
A current lawsuit focuses on which stakeholders are responsible when CRTs are stockpiled rather than properly recycled. | Boonchuay1970 / Shutterstock
We may have gotten it all wrong. After almost two decades spent on setting up a policy framework to ensure that CRT TVs and monitors were sent to proper recycling channels, millions and millions of pounds of CRTs are instead stacked in warehouses across the country. Continue Reading
The Nerivio uses electrical neuromodulation to provide pain relief for migraine sufferers.
California Electronic Asset Recovery has established a mail-in recycling program with an Israeli medical device manufacturer. A CEAR manager highlighted the potential of direct dealings with OEMs.
Staff at KC Recycling in Trail, B.C. | Courtesy of KC Recycling.
KC Recycling, which prepares CRT glass for Teck’s lead smelter in British Columbia, is doubling its glass-processing capacity. The move is in response to Glencore closing its New Brunswick smelter.
Michael Collins, CEO of eCycle Solutions
One of Canada’s largest commodities-focused processors, eCycle Solutions, says a recent business acquisition will allow it to quickly expand ITAD services across the country.
The company below has either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices or degaussing.
Advanced Records Management of Plymouth, Minn.; Central Texas Shredding of Austin, Texas; Data Management Shredding of Terre Haute, Ind.; IT Asset Management Group of Farmingdale, N.Y.; Opportunity Distributing of Minnetonka, Minn.; and TechnoCycle of Houston.
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Apple stated it does not act to “block” customers from choosing non-Apple-authorized repair shops. | Goran Bogicevic/Shutterstock
Apple, which is often criticized for adopting policies hampering independent repair, recently responded to questions from Congress on right-to-repair and other topics.
The RECOVER Act provides up to $500 million in matching grants to state and local governments. | Yi Chen Chiang/Shutterstock
Two bills before Congress provide millions of dollars in funding for recycling efforts, including recovery and processing of electronics.