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An upcoming federal trial will decide how much General Electric must pay for stymying competition in the repair market for its equipment. A jury previously awarded plaintiffs tens of millions of dollars.
Readers last month were drawn to stories about business openings, closings and sales, from e-scrap companies both huge and small.
An architect’s rendering of the in-progress MCPc facility in Cleveland.
IT logistics firm MCPc is pushing further into the end-of-life device management field and is gearing up to open a large ITAD facility in Cleveland.
Device scavenging is hampering formalized electronics recycling efforts in Europe, and a new study concludes there is little established processors can do to stop it.
A comprehensive report prepared for the Closed Loop Foundation digs deep into the current recycling landscape for e-scrap and electrical appliances. It also notes the industry needs to equip itself to handle a shifting material stream.
A trial is deciding whether federal Superfund law makes three South Carolina counties responsible for costs to remove CRT displays and other material abandoned by shuttered processor Creative Recycling Systems.
With a month until this year’s E-Scrap Conference, we’re catching up with another expert who will take the stage in New Orleans.
A-1 Document Storage & Shredding of Rolla, Mo.; ERI of Indianapolis; Re-Teck Asset Management of Wiener Neustadt, Austria; Shred Aware of Eureka, Calif.; and Super Save Shredding of Surrey, British Columbia have achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Avritek of San Diego, Calif. has achieved R2:2013 certification.
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The displays on smartphones are expected to keep expanding in size, and Apple’s upcoming iPhone models will be part of the trend.
Sims Recycling Solutions saw higher earnings during its recently ended fiscal year, bolstered by better profitability at its U.S. operations.