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E-Scrap News has now published responses from five of the six companies named in Basel Action Network’s latest export report (“The Scam Recycling Continues”). In their statements, those companies have made some assertions that warrant a response. In addition, one of the company responses noted a geographic error in the recent report, and we wish to publicly correct that fact. The inaccuracy, while regrettable, has no bearing on the findings of export in the report. Continue Reading
The Home Depot will pay nearly $28 million in a California settlement involving disposal of e-scrap, batteries, household hazardous waste and intact customer information.
A large-scale, high-tech e-scrap recycling facility in Hong Kong will hold an official opening ceremony next week.
Despite having a landfill ban in place, problems have plagued electronics recycling in Colorado for years, and stakeholders are working to find a solution.
The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about how changing smartphone markets are opening up business opportunities in the used phone sector.
March 2018 marks the one-year anniversary of the electronics recycling program launching in New Brunswick, the ninth province to leverage the electronics recycling program administered by the Electronics Product Recycling Association (EPRA). Continue Reading
The e-scrap arm of Arrow Electronics handled nearly 6.3 million used devices last year, 44 percent of which were redeployed, sold or donated for reuse.
A Shred 2 Pieces of Irving, Texas; Avritek of San Diego; LeMay Mobile Shredding of Lacey, Wash.; PACE Enterprises of West Virginia of Morgantown, W.V.; Resource 1 Electronics of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Security Data Destruction of Phoenix; Shred-All, Shred Innovations of Pikeville, Ky.; South Bay Document Destruction of Gardena, Calif. and West Michigan Document Shredding of Jenison, Mich. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
In addition, Re-Teck Brazil, a subsidiary of the Li-Tong Group, has achieved R2:2013 certification.
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John Lingelbach will be leaving his post at the helm of Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) and the R2 certification program later this year.
Federal researchers have examined an electricity-based processing method that could open doors to more cost-effective and environmentally friendly methods of metals recovery from electronics.