Canadian e-scrap processor Greentec released its first sustainability report this week. It provides key operational data points while also touching on CRTs and other industry trends.
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Canadian e-scrap processor Greentec released its first sustainability report this week. It provides key operational data points while also touching on CRTs and other industry trends.
Communities that want to offer home pick-up of end-of-life electronics must overcome a number of challenges. Bureaucracy, it seems, is one of them.
Brian Riise on stage at the 2019 Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show.
An expert recently explained why North American e-plastics processing could be a component of a wider effort to reduce energy use in U.S. manufacturing. And he outlined steps for progress.
Florida-based Early Upgrade recently moved into a much larger warehouse and is buying a wider array of end-of-life devices.
DocuBit of Lancaster, Ky.; Secure On-Site Shredding of Richardson, Texas; Shred-South of Statesville, N.C.; and Valley Green Shredding of Westfield, Mass. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, ERI of Badin, N.C. and ERI of Plainfield, Ind. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization.
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Courts and law enforcement news dominated the list of most-read stories last month.
In March, Blancco Technology Group released survey results showing consumer anxieties about potential mismanagement of their data on electronic devices. Now, a different study shows their data concerns are anything but irrational.
Agbogbloshie, Ghana
A pair of recent studies have identified toxic substances in the ground and in eggs from chickens foraging in Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
A sibling of SAM has landed in the Midwest. ERI has installed its second Super Automated Machine (SAM), an e-scrap sorting robot, at the company’s Indiana plant.
An Arizona-headquartered processor is expanding into California with an ITAD facility serving the northern part of the state.