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American Data Guard of Kent, Wash. and RW Lone Star Security of Temple, Texas have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
PC Survivors of Massachusetts of Hanover, Mass. has renewed its R2:2013 and RIOS certifications.
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Auditors have started conducting surprise visits of R2-certified facilities outside North America to see whether they’re following R2 standards. Continue Reading
Two recent teardowns dug into the guts of Apple’s latest device, yielding insights on repairability and the estimated cost of the phone’s components.
New York City is expanding a program in which households can make a reservation to have end-of-life devices picked up by city crews.
Best Shredding-Red Deer of Red Deer, Alberta; EnviroShred of Calgary, Alberta; EnviroShred of Edmonton, Alberta; International Data Depository of Miami; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Des Moines, Iowa; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Marion, Iowa; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Waterloo, Iowa; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; Shred With Us of West Columbia, S.C.; and Sugar House Archives & Shred of Salt Lake City have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, ERI of Flower Mound, Texas has renewed its NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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A study takes a wide-ranging look at the health and environmental impacts of improperly managed scrap electronics, and it suggests ways the whole value chain can work to solve the problems.
A group of Taiwanese developers has unveiled a recycling system to recover glass, indium and liquid crystal from LCD screens.
The IT asset disposition sector is facing “unprecedented uncertainty,” according to an industry expert, yet it is receiving more and more interest from outside investors.
Electronics recycling supports 920 jobs and injects more than $200 million into the Texas economy, researchers estimate.
Cook’s Mobile Shredding Service of Memphis, Tenn.; ITEC of Santa Ana, Calif.; Rapid Information Destruction (RID) Services of Sacramento, Calif. and Shred Experts of Saginaw, Mich. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Spectrum Ecycle Solutions of St. Louis is now certified to OHSAS 18001:2007, R2:2013 and ISO 14001:2004.
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