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Nextuse of Dover, N.H. achieved NAID certification for hard drive sanitization and degaussing and hard drive destruction.
R4 Services of Chicago achieved NAID certification for hard drive and SSD destruction.
Security Operations Group-International (SOG-I) of San Antonio achieved NAID certification for hard drive destruction.
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Grant money will fund a portable hard drive shredder for Comprenew’s U.P. location in Marquette, Mich. | Courtesy of Comprenew.
The state of Michigan will help fund the expansion of e-scrap collections in the Upper Peninsula, a broad area where dumping of used electronics has been a problem.
India was the second largest importer of U.S. scrap plastic during the first six months of 2019. | Avigator Fortuner/Shutterstock
Recovered plastic, including material from end-of-life electronics, has largely stopped flowing from the U.S. into India, which until recently has been among the top importers of scrap plastics.
The value of gold has risen 15% since spring. | Dominic Warren/Shutterstock
A slowing global economy and rising fears over trade wars have produced steep changes in the value of scrap metals in obsolete electronics. Some prices have risen handsomely while others have fallen sharply.
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Apple confirmed its installation of battery-checking software. | gowithstock/Shutterstock
Newer iPhone models contain software that effectively impedes third-party battery replacement, according to a repair advocacy group. Apple says it introduced the software as a safety measure.
The EU is working to provide a financial incentive to companies to redesign products to reduce their environmental impacts.| Giannis Papanikos/Shutterstock
The European Union is looking to financially reward OEMs that produce environmentally friendly devices and punish those that don’t. Industry groups are urging caution.
Congruity of Pembroke, Mass. and Re-Teck Asset Management of Wiener Neustadt, Austria have achieved NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization, solid state device overwrite, physical hard drive destruction and SSD destruction.
Chesapeake Paper Systems of Baltimore achieved NAID certification for physical hard drive destruction.
ServerMonkey of Houston and N.F. Smith & Associates of Houston have achieved e-Stewards certification.
ViaTeK Solutions of Clearwater, Fla.; Lawrenceville, Ga.; and Phoenix achieved R2:2013, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications.
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Fire officials spoke with employees and learned the blaze sparked when computers were mixed with lithium-ion batteries. | Inaoy/Shutterstock
This story has been updated.
An Illinois e-scrap processor suffered a major fire this week. The cause is unconfirmed – company employees told investigators lithium-ion batteries were involved, but company officials dispute that fact.
The final version of the R2 update is expected to be released later this year. | everything possible/Shutterstock
A tentative timeline has been released for e-scrap processing facilities planning to seek certification to the updated R2 standard.
At the workshops, experts will discuss how to reduce risks associated with lithium-ion batteries | Allyson Kitts/Shutterstock
Federal officials are holding a series of free workshops around the country to teach e-scrap companies and others how to safely handle lithium-ion batteries.