Oregon regulators announced they’ve settled a case against e-scrap processor Total Reclaim, centered on the company misleading customers about how devices were being handled. The company had previously acknowledged the settlement.
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Oregon regulators announced they’ve settled a case against e-scrap processor Total Reclaim, centered on the company misleading customers about how devices were being handled. The company had previously acknowledged the settlement.
A major e-scrap facility in Oman is nearing completion, bringing electronics processing to a country that has traditionally landfilled or exported material.
A-1 Freeman Records Management/Paper Pig Shredding of Wichita Falls, Texas; Abrams Mobile Doc. Dest. Svc.. of Thomasville, Ga.; Assured Document Destruction – Tucson Branch of Tucson, Ariz.; Columbus Secure Shredding of Salt Lake City; Corrigan Record Storage of Novi, Mich.; LeMay Mobile Shredding of Lacey, Wash.; Northwest Shredders of Woodward, Okla.; Ohio Mobile Shredding of Columbus, Ohio; Shred Doc Destr dba Balcones Shred of Dallas and Time Shred Services of Freeport, N.Y. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, ERI of Sumner, Wash. and GEEP Canada of Brampton, Ontario have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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One of the country’s largest insurers recently purchased an on-site provider of smartphone and tablet repairs.
Two government initiatives looking to energize the lithium-ion battery recycling sector have officially launched, offering prize money to recycling entrepreneurs and a dedicated laboratory to house research projects.
Revenue and earnings for global e-scrap processor Sims Recycling Solutions dropped in the second half of 2018 compared with the same period a year earlier.
EPC has opened a large processing site in Atlanta, improving its reach into the Southeastern U.S. market.
A longtime Kansas City nonprofit e-scrap operation has temporarily closed its doors, noting that financial pressure from changes in global recycling markets played into the decision.
Despite trying economic times for much of the industry, Missouri-based EPC has found success by sticking with its specialty: refurbing and remarketing used IT equipment.
Part of URT’s CRT glass processing system in Janesville, Wis.
One of the country’s largest e-scrap companies is recycling CRT glass into a marketable product that could reduce the processor’s dependence on erratic downstream markets for leaded material.