Courts, exports and PCB refiner stories drew a slew of readers’ clicks last month.
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Courts, exports and PCB refiner stories drew a slew of readers’ clicks last month.
As they look to attract more multinational clients, processors have realized they need to expand their footprints. A U.S. company’s recent move shows how strategic partnerships can fit into that international equation.
Serdar Bankaci, Gary Curtis, Miles Harter and Rob Schafer discuss a range of industry topics at the 2018 E-Scrap Conference in New Orleans.
Material markets have shifted over the past year, but commodity pricing is just one of myriad forces that are constantly shaping and reshaping the e-scrap and ITAD sector.
Two counties that provided e-scrap to failed processor Creative Recycling Systems must help pay cleanup costs incurred after the material was abandoned, a judge decided.
Data Shredding Services of Texas of Houston; DFW Shredding of Plano, Texas; MDS Records Management of Des Moines, Iowa; Rapid Information Destruction (RID) Services of Sacramento, Calif. and Shred With Us of West Columbia, S.C. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Cascade Asset Management of Indianapolis and of Madison, Wis.; and HiTech Assets of Oklahoma City, Okla. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization operations as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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The owners of Seattle processor Total Reclaim have pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy crimes, marking the latest development in the fallout from the company’s exports of LCD devices to Hong Kong.
Researchers analyzing particle samples from an e-scrap facility found concentrations of a previously undetected, potentially toxic chemical.
A more advanced shredding and separation system will help Premier Surplus extract valuable materials from small and high-grade electronic devices.
The number of e-scrap processors that are members of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has declined in the past year.
Listings for used Apple products sold by independent resellers will be removed from Amazon’s platform early next year.