Proposed legislation dramatically overhauls Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program, adding a point-of-sale fee on certain devices and making manufacturers financially responsible for end-of-life management of all devices collected under the law.
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Proposed legislation dramatically overhauls Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program, adding a point-of-sale fee on certain devices and making manufacturers financially responsible for end-of-life management of all devices collected under the law.
Indian authorities find manufacturers are failing to meet extended producer responsibility requirements, and authorized recycling companies in the U.K. create a new forum to communicate with public agencies.
Fireproof Records Center of Columbus, Ohio and Total Destruction of Alamogordo, N.M. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Cascade Asset Management – Indianapolis of Indianapolis; Cascade Asset Management of Madison, Wis.; EPC’s E-Scrap Processing Center of Wright City, Mo.; and Supply-Chain Services of Lombard, Ill. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Jabil Environmental Technologies has achieved R2 and RIOS certifications at the company’s facility in Memphis, Tenn. Jabil also recently achieved NAID certification for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Sarah Murray of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources speaks at E-Scrap 2017.
When it comes to CRT management, the profit is shaky and the industry is littered with horror stories of stockpiles and legal battles to determine who pays for cleanup.