Large piles of CRT glass at Closed Loop’s S 59th Ave. site in Phoenix. Photo from 2016.
Major CRT tonnages left behind by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sit in warehouses in Arizona and Ohio as regulatory and legal action continues.
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Large piles of CRT glass at Closed Loop’s S 59th Ave. site in Phoenix. Photo from 2016.
Major CRT tonnages left behind by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sit in warehouses in Arizona and Ohio as regulatory and legal action continues.
Ronin8’s sonic separation equipment.
Ronin8, which uses sonic technology to process low-grade circuit boards into a higher-value, smelter-ready material, is looking to scale up operations.
AERC.com of Allentown, Pa.; Datashredder of Framingham, Mass.; Goodwill Southern California Secure Shredding of Los Angeles; Richards & Richards of Nashville, Tenn.; Shred Works of Oakland, Calif.; and Viking Shred of West Sacramento, Calif. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling of Franklin, N.J. has achieved ISO 14001:2015 certification.
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Crown Shredding of South Daytona, Fla.; Dynamic Recycling of Onalaska, Wis.; and Williams Data Management of Los Angeles have have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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It’s been 15 years since California’s e-scrap program was launched, and those years have brought significant changes to the end-of-life device stream. Now, administrators of the country’s first state program have adopted a vision for the future.
Missouri regulators plan to delete nearly all regulations under the state’s electronics recycling program, but on-the-ground impacts may be limited.
A bill making changes to Maine’s electronics recycling framework became law after the legislature overrode the governor’s veto.
A company that has developed a bio-metallurgical recovery process for e-scrap is seeking investors to help the business scale up its operations, after reporting successful tests of the process.
A $25,000 grant will help a Nebraska processor achieve R2 certification, part of a larger effort to boost e-scrap recycling capacity in the Cornhusker State.
California regulators are accusing e-scrap processor Metech Recycling of violating hazardous waste management laws. In separate news, the state recently settled a lamp recycling case with AERC Recycling Solutions, which also handles scrap electronics.