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.
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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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BAN staff member Chris Brandt installs a GPS tracker into an LCD screen in Ireland.
The Basel Action Network today released its latest e-scrap export tracking study, this time highlighting shipments from European Union countries to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Judicial and processor-specific articles took top spots in terms of readership last month, along with a story about federal battery recycling efforts.
Trucks outside ERI’s Fresno, Calif. recycling facility.
ERI is using machinery with artificial intelligence to sort materials coming out of a shredder. It’s the first publicly known case of an AI robotic system sorting e-scrap.
A growing number of U.S. businesses and institutions are using ITAD service providers, but they are more selective about the companies they work with, according to a new report.
A photo from court records shows CRT glass stored outside Stone Castle Recycling’s Clearfield, Utah facility.
A former e-scrap executive has been sentenced to one year in a federal prison for storing hazardous CRT waste without a permit.
E-scrap processor Cascade Asset Management saw resale prices rise for devices it handled over the past year, according to the company’s recently released annual report.
The ITAD arm of a Canadian electronics leasing company has opened a new processing facility near Vancouver, B.C. Continue Reading