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.
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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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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.
A researcher in China says that 88 percent of the blood samples taken from children in Guiyu, China clearly show lead poisoning. The findings are made more significant by their publication in the government-owned China Daily. China has, until recently, downplayed reports of Guiyu’s e-waste hazards. Continue Reading
With an air pollution permit in place for a New York operation, a U.K.-based CRT glass recycling firm says it’s bringing its smelting technology to the U.S.
Millions of pounds of CRT devices abandoned by Utah’s Stone Castle Recycling continue to plague local communities.
As information comes to light about widespread landfilling of CRT glass in California, electronics recycling standards R2 and e-Stewards are working to determine their next steps.
Com2 Recycling Solutions is opening a facility in Georgia as it expands its capacity to produce a glaze product from CRT glass. The glaze is currently used on tile products made by Brazilian manufacturers.