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In 2016, New York began providing grants to offset municipalities’ e-scrap collection and recycling costs. Two years later, nearly one-third of the dollars remain to be distributed.
A leader at Metech Recycling envisions restructuring and reinvesting after taking the business private. Meanwhile, company representatives say they have resolved hazardous waste issues at Metech’s California facility.
A1 Shredding and Recycling of Marietta, Ga.; Affiliated Van Lines DBA File Thirteen of Lawton, Okla.; Arizona Document Destruction of Phoenix; Document Shredding & Storage of Amarillo, Texas; Greene of Xenia, Ohio; Hill’s Shred Express of Ocala, Fla.; Recycling Express of Florence, Ky.; Shred ND of Dickinson, N.D.; and Shred-X Pty Ltd ACT of Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, EPC’s E-Scrap Processing Center of Saint Charles, Mo. and Lewis Clark Recyclers of Lewiston, Idaho have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization and physical destruction of hard drives.
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A committee at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has begun a project to write specifications for electronics destined for repair and reuse.
Solid state device data erasure is slated be added to the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) certification standard.
The Basel Action Network (BAN) announced today that all companies certified to BAN’s e-Stewards standard will also be required to maintain certification with the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID).
A consumer-funded electronics recycling program has gone into effect in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
A nonprofit electronics processor is spending millions of dollars to vastly expand its footprint in the Twin Cities area.
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