Draft legislation would make Massachusetts the 26th state with a regulated e-scrap program.
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Draft legislation would make Massachusetts the 26th state with a regulated e-scrap program.
Industry consolidation and soft metal and plastics markets resulted in a decline in membership by e-scrap processors in the last year in the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
A recent write-up from a U.K. electronics trade group leader makes a cogent argument for why electronics engineers have a key role to play in ensuring devices are repairable and recyclable.
American Data Guard of Kent, Wash. and RW Lone Star Security of Temple, Texas have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
PC Survivors of Massachusetts of Hanover, Mass. has renewed its R2:2013 and RIOS certifications.
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Auditors have started conducting surprise visits of R2-certified facilities outside North America to see whether they’re following R2 standards. Continue Reading
Two recent teardowns dug into the guts of Apple’s latest device, yielding insights on repairability and the estimated cost of the phone’s components.
New York City is expanding a program in which households can make a reservation to have end-of-life devices picked up by city crews.
Best Shredding-Red Deer of Red Deer, Alberta; EnviroShred of Calgary, Alberta; EnviroShred of Edmonton, Alberta; International Data Depository of Miami; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Des Moines, Iowa; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Marion, Iowa; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Waterloo, Iowa; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; Shred With Us of West Columbia, S.C.; and Sugar House Archives & Shred of Salt Lake City have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, ERI of Flower Mound, Texas has renewed its NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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A study takes a wide-ranging look at the health and environmental impacts of improperly managed scrap electronics, and it suggests ways the whole value chain can work to solve the problems.
A group of Taiwanese developers has unveiled a recycling system to recover glass, indium and liquid crystal from LCD screens.
