A modular phone maker receives significant new capital, and an investment manager advises shareholders to push companies away from exporting e-scrap.
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A modular phone maker receives significant new capital, and an investment manager advises shareholders to push companies away from exporting e-scrap.
Affiliated Van Lines DBA File Thirteen of Lawton, Okla.; Hanna Paper Recycling of Mansfield, Mass.; River City Shredding of Ringgold, Ga.; SAFESHRED of Commerce, Calif. and Southeast Secure Shredding of Vero Beach, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Greentec of Cambridge, Ontario has achieved its NAID certification for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Joe Pickard speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference.
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been volatile of late. Such uncertainty could continue as China considers limits on taking in some metal grades.
A second e-scrap company has been released from an Arizona CRT abandonment lawsuit targeting upstream suppliers of the material.
Future funding levels for the U.S. EPA are one step closer to certainty after lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives approved government spending outlined in a dozen agency-specific budget bills this month.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of industry experts took to the stage in Orlando to discuss the trends and challenges shaping electronics recovery right now. Here are some of the most compelling pieces of information we took away from those talks.
Bob McCarthy
There was a clear thread woven through E-Scrap 2017: Reuse and refurbishment activities are dramatically increasing in the end-of-life electronics management industry. One executive at the center of the shift outlined steps to move into device repair successfully.
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.
