Metals company Boliden recovered copper and precious metals from 95,000 short tons of printed circuit boards in 2018, up 12 percent year over year, according to an annual report.
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Metals company Boliden recovered copper and precious metals from 95,000 short tons of printed circuit boards in 2018, up 12 percent year over year, according to an annual report.
A handful of electronics processors have recently opened facilities or expanded existing plants. Here’s a roundup of recent facility activity.
The recycling rate for electronics and electrical appliances increased in the European Union in 2016, new figures show.
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The Indian government says it will ban scrap plastic imports, a move that threatens to further disrupt the U.S. recycling industry by closing a growing market.
Photo shows the tracking device on a laptop displaying the tracking software interface.
Of 170 trackers placed in e-scrap devices over the past two years, the vast majority remained in the U.S. Most of those electronics that were exported went to Asia, according to the Green Tracking Service.
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Document Security Services (Div of ORS, Inc.) of Durham, N.C.; Mobile Document Destruction of Kankakee, Ill.; PACE Enterprises of West Virginia of Westover, W.Va.; REISSWOLF Randstad I BV of Wognum, Netherlands; Shred Aware of Eureka, Calif.; Wasteco-Dixie Recycling Centre of Mississauga, Ontario; and XpresShred of Centennial, Colo. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Congruity of Pembroke, Mass. has renewed its NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Robotic sorting, metals markets and CRT cleanups grabbed reader attention last month.
A Kansas nonprofit e-scrap operator has closed its doors, citing dwindling device collections.
Machinery at the shuttered BlueOak Arkansas e-scrap smelting plant is being auctioned off late this month.
Resource Recycling, Inc., which produces a number of recycling trade publications and conferences, has been acquired by the Association of Plastic Recyclers.