DataSafe of Sacramento, Calif.; Embassy Records Management and Storage of College Station, Texas; Gone For Good of Fairfield, Calif.; MARCO of Fenton, Mo.; MinnKota Secured Document Destruction of Fargo, N.D.; SelectShred of Stuart, Fla.; Shred N Go of Edina, Minn.; Shred-X Secure Destruction of Idalia, Queensland, Australia and The Paper Predator by DDC of Kentucky of Shelbyville, Ky. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Maven Technologies of Rochester, N.Y. and Reclamere of Tyrone, Penn. have achieved their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization and physical destruction of hard drives.
PC Server & Parts of New Hudson, Mich. has achieved R2, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001 certifications.
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Two men accused of stockpiling and taking steps to illegally dispose of CRT glass have pleaded guilty to federal hazardous waste violations. One of them has been sentenced to probation.
A major retailer will pay $7.4 million to settle allegations it again broke California law by illegally tossing used electronics and hazardous materials in the garbage.
Sadoff Iron and Metal Co. will pivot the focus at one of its facilities away from scrap metals and toward electronics recycling.
A metals company will expand capacity at a Swedish copper smelter that consumes substantial volumes of printed circuit boards.
Additional data protection and privacy laws are coming to San Francisco and elsewhere in the Golden State.
Import policies in China and Southeast Asia continue to tighten, making it more difficult to move certain e-scrap materials to international markets.