The largest probe to date of used devices supposedly scrubbed of their data found that 40 percent still retained some amount of personal information.
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The largest probe to date of used devices supposedly scrubbed of their data found that 40 percent still retained some amount of personal information.
Apple envisions a future in which it sources all minerals in its products from recovered electronics, according to the company’s recently released environmental responsibility report.
Getting old mobile devices out of Canadians’ junk drawers and into the recycling stream may be a lucrative challenge for the e-scrap industry, a survey suggests.
Bankruptcies are a fact of the business world, and the electronics recycling sector is no exception. In the wake of last week’s news that PCCR had filed for Chapter 7, we offer a timeline of significant cases that have hit e-scrap of late.
The e-scrap export criminal case involving Colorado’s Executive Recycling has seen recent developments after being tied up in appeals for the past four years.
Environmental officials in Minnesota are still attempting to get MPC, once one of the largest electronics recycling companies in the Upper Midwest, to complete the cleanup of its former operation.
Ark-La-Tex Shredding Company of Tyler, Texas; Bayaud Enterprises of Denver; Commodity Resource & Environmental Inc. of Mojave, Calif.; Green Country Shredding and Recycling, Inc. of Tulsa, Okla.; Integra Certified Document Destruction LLC of Elkhart, Ind.; Record Keepers LLC of Fargo, N.D.; Safeguard Shredding LLC of Ft. Myers, Fla. SecureShredTM of Regina, Saskatchewan; The Shredder of Des Moines, Iowa; and Valley Green Shredding LLC of Westfield, Mass. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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An e-scrap facility transforms into an art gallery for an evening, and a Chinese import expert says moving recovered electronics into the country will only get tougher.
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Computer giant Dell says it is closing in on its goal of collecting 2 billion pounds of used electronics by 2020.
It’s been a little over a year since repair group iFixit and processor ERI teamed up to recover components from used electronics. And thus far, the effort has been successful in getting much-needed items out to the repair community.