Though overall revenue fell, profits at global e-scrap company Sims Recycling Solutions grew significantly last year, according to the firm’s latest financial filings.
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Though overall revenue fell, profits at global e-scrap company Sims Recycling Solutions grew significantly last year, according to the firm’s latest financial filings.
A lawsuit accuses Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, Kuusakoski, and UNICOR of being responsible for a “sham recycling scheme” that led to the abandonment of over 100 million pounds of CRT material in Columbus, Ohio.
A unique, non-toxic leaching technology that’s been deployed in Canada is set to roll out at the site of an electronics manufacturer in Tennessee.
A number of CRT-related updates, including an $18 million judgment in a lawsuit against one firm, drew our readers’ clicks in August.
A.R.M.S. of DePere, Wis.; Assured Document Destruction of Las Vegas; Augusta Data Storage of Augusta, Ga.; Commonwealth Document Management of Danville, Va.; Data Shredding Services of Texas, Inc. II of Grapevine, Texas; DeVries Information Management of Spokane, Wash.; Document Destruction Services of Homer, Ga.; Document Shredding & Storage of Amarillo, Texas; Greene of Xenia, Ohio; H&R Shredding of Staunton, Va.; Kard Recycling Service of New Berlin, Wis.; Norfolk Disposal of Waterford, Ontario; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Waterloo, Iowa; Papersavers Limited of Markham, Ontario; POS Remarketing Group of Wauconda, Ill.; Shred Guard of Saint John, New Brunswick; Smarter Shredding of Dallas and Time Shred Services (Shred Services Inc.) of Hillside, N.J. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Lewis Clark Recyclers of Lewiston, Idaho; Nextuse of Hampton, N.H.; and Opportunity Distributing of Minnetonka, Minn. have achieved their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Cracked mobile device screens may be able to fix themselves in the future, and two groups will hold a workshop discussing violations of extended producer responsibility laws by online e-commerce sites.
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Three million pounds of CRT materials sit stockpiled in an Arizona warehouse formerly used by Dow Management, and the current property owner wants upstream generators of the material to pay for its cleanup.
Last year, lawmakers failed to pass legislation reforming Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program. With the introduction of a bipartisan bill this year, some of them want to take another go at it.
An initiative in Europe will work to overcome obstacles to the closed-loop recycling of plastics from electronics and appliances.