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.
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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.
Corporate Destruction Solutions of Peabody, Mass.; File Shred of Glastonbury, Conn.; Gilmore Services of Pensacola, Fla. and Sims Recycling Solutions of LaVergne, Tenn. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, The Insley Organization dba Quick Ship Brands of Woodinville, Wash. has renewed its NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Global economic conditions have helped push up the scrap value of principal metals used in electronics.
Electronics repair-related bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country, but it’s still too early to know where – or if – they’ll gain traction.
ITAD firm Re-Teck opened its first Dutch location this week, a facility that the company says will bolster its European market reach.
Nova Scotia is banning additional types of electronics from disposal, a move that requires product manufacturers to expand their recycling services under the province’s extended producer responsibility program.
Advanced Technology Recycling opened a Las Vegas ITAD facility and relocated its Salt Lake City-area site into a larger space.
Dakota Data Shred of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Information Protection Services Inc | Shred Boss of Roswell, N.M.; Northeast Data Destruction of Mansfield, Mass.; Regency Technologies of Tumwater, Wash.; Rocky Mountain Document Destruction of Salt Lake City; RW Lone Star Security of Temple, Texas; Secure Destruction Service of Birmingham, Ala.; Secure Destruction Service of Huntsville, Ala.; Sims Recycling Solutions of West Chicago, Ill.; Southland Shredding of Ontario, Calif.; UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. and Without A Trace Mobile Shredding of Scarborough, Maine have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Confidential Materials Destruction Service of New Territories, Hong Kong; Electronic Responsible Recyclers – ER2 – Memphis of Memphis, Tenn.; Liquid Technology of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Secure e-Cycle of Kansas City, Kan. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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