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The rulemaking would have allowed exports of tested and working devices. | Alexey Lesik/Shutterstock
The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided not to pursue regulations restricting some e-scrap exports, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
The companies below have either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certification destruction services: 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.
Ace Data Storage of Gulfport, Miss.; CI Information Management of Kennewick, Wash,; Computer Recycling Center of Springfield, Mo.; De Graaf Security of Amsterdam; Shredall of Bestwood Village, Nottingham, U.K.; Shredall Scotland of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, U.K.; Shredlogix of San Jose, Calif.; ShredTex of Houston; Shred-X Secure Destruction of Winnellie, Northern Territory, Australia; TechnoCycle of Houston; Tri-State Shredding of Harrisburg, Pa.; and United Ability doing business as Gone for Good of Birmingham, Ala.
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A number of e-scrap companies are defending themselves in court. | xfilephotos/Shutterstock
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A dozen e-scrap companies will cut checks totalling $517,000 to settle allegations they’re partially responsible for abandoned CRT materials in Ohio. Meanwhile, 15 other processors appear set to duke it out with landowners in court.
A legal dispute in California centers on the state’s change in how it collects disposal and diversion rate data. | Esin Deniz/Shutterstock
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has won a court order temporarily shielding its scrap metal recycling members from having to relay their tonnage data to California regulators.
The company’s process uses microorganisms to scavenge precious metals from circuit boards. | raigvi/Shutterstock
An e-scrap firm using microbes to recover metals from electronic scrap has launched a processing facility to demonstrate its technology.
Arrow Electronics will no longer receive devices at its facilities after Aug. 5. | basiczto/Shutterstock
Global ITAD services provider Arrow Electronics will close the asset disposition side of its business by the end of the year, after the company experienced two quarters of worsening financial returns.
Regulatory changes could prevent the U.S. from exporting e-plastics to a number of countries. | rawf8/Shutterstock
Federal regulators are asking countries that are major buyers of U.S. scrap plastic to refrain from implementing new trade restrictions laid out in the Basel Convention, a treaty covering global scrap material shipments.
CRT TVs stacked for recycling. |CHAINFOTO24/Shutterstock
As many operators take a breather this holiday week, we are presenting a list of our most-read stories from January through June (in terms of unique page views).
A number of e-scrap-related items were addressed in Dell’s 2019 sustainability report. | Courtesy of Dell
A global OEM says it has achieved its 2020 electronics recycling and recycled feedstock goals. The company also adopted e-scrap tracking as a permanent part of its recycling vendor auditing program.