Around 1,200 electronics recovery professionals gathered last week for North America’s largest sector event. Our photo slideshow offers a taste of the networking, education and industry connection that took place over three busy days.
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Around 1,200 electronics recovery professionals gathered last week for North America’s largest sector event. Our photo slideshow offers a taste of the networking, education and industry connection that took place over three busy days.
American Document Destruction of Sparks, Nev.; Data Guardian of Portage, Mich.; File Pro of Corpus Christi, Texas; Hill’s Shred Express of Ocala, Fla.; Stevens & Stevens BRM of Greenville, S.C.; The DocShop (Vic) Pty Ltd. of Traralgon, Victoria, Australia; The Information Management Group of Wellington, New Zealand; and WesTex Document Inc. of Lubbock, Texas have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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For the e-scrap industry, business as usual may not cut it in the future. To help, this week’s E-Scrap Conference is providing information and connections that allow processors and others to stay on top of changes in the fast-evolving sector.
Bolstering domestic markets is a logical way to reduce exports, and that concept is behind a just-announced program that’s tied to an e-scrap certification.
Lithium-ion batteries will come to play a far larger role in the scrap electronics stream in the future, and an expert says companies will need to adapt to the challenges and opportunities these materials present. Continue Reading
There was some level of OEM influence in an e-scrap company’s decision to send tens of millions of pounds of CRT glass to the ill-fated Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, statements from Kuusakoski and Sony show.
A firm releases a list of common problems auditors come across in e-scrap processing facilities, and Apple boosts its repair prices.
Nulife Glass, a company that built its own furnace to recycle CRT glass in the U.S., has decided to close.
Scientists have developed an environmentally friendly way to recover rare earth elements from shredded electronic scrap without the need for pre-sorting of materials.
A European project will release a data platform providing a wealth of information on changes in the end-of-life stream. The particulars can help processors better recover commodities from scrap electronics.
