New York City officials have announced plans to make the Staten Island curbside e-scrap recycling service permanent while also rolling it out into more-populous city boroughs.
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New York City officials have announced plans to make the Staten Island curbside e-scrap recycling service permanent while also rolling it out into more-populous city boroughs.
LCD devices contain many components that are commonly recycled, but the screen glass and the substance coating it are not among them.
EPEAT and other eco-labeling initiatives are helping boost the use of recycled content in plastics used for electronics, an HP executive said at a recent European plastics recycling conference.
N Document Destruction of Clifton Park, N.Y.; Accurate Document Destruction of McCook, Ill.; Advanced Data Storage of Bakersfield, Calif.; American Document Destruction of St. Louis; AmeriTex of Houston; ATI SecureDocs of Austin, Texas; ASDD, a division of The Centers for Habilitation of Tempe, Ariz.; Beacon Secure of Tucson, Ariz.; Best Shredding (Div/Best Service Pros) of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada; Business Data Record Services of New Brighton, Minn.; DataSafe of South San Francisco, Calif.; Document Resources, a division of Underground Vaults and Storage of Topeka, Kansas; Docu Shred of East Grand Forks, Minn.; EnTrust Records Management of Richmond, Va.; IntelliShred of Frenchtown, N.J.; iSecure of Grants Pass, Ore.; Metro Record Storage and Shredding of Bakersfield, Calif.; Opportunity Village of Henderson, Nev.; Shred Ace of Durham, N.C.; Shred Up of Perth Amboy, N.J. and Viking Shred of West Sacramento, Calif. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Dynamic Recycling of Onalaska, Wis.; Dynamic Recycling TN of Nashville, Tenn.; and EWASTE + formerly Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery of Victor, N.Y. have renewed their NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization and physical destruction of hard drives.
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A processor bankruptcy and metals recovery innovation caught the eye of readers last month.
Sims Recycling Solutions has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification at all sites in the U.S. The processor holds ISO 9001:2008 certification at sites across the globe.
Citadel Information Management of Westmont, Ill.; DataLock (Div of 3GS, LLC) of Mount Vernon, Ill.; Filebank Record Center Ltd. of Toronto; MARS, LLC of Olympia, Wash.; NEXCUT Shredding of Elizabeth, N.J.; Northeast Data Destruction LLC of Mansfield, Mass.; Pioneer SecureShred of Minneapolis, Minn.; Rapid Information Destruction (RID) Services of Sacramento, Calif.; SelectShred, Inc. of Stuart, Fla.; and Shred San Diego of Poway, Calif. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Maxxum, Inc. of Rush City, Minn. has renewed its NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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An appeals court has let a long-simmering lawsuit against the Basel Action Network go forward.
Stories on the disposition of CRT glass in California and a legal battle over a battery fire drew our readers’ attention last month.
Adera of Ft. Myers, Fla.; All Points Mobile Shredding of Stuart, Fla.; AMS Store and Shred of Lake in the Hills, Ill.; InfoStore Records Center of Brooklyn Heights, Ohio; Quality Shredding of Deer Park, N.Y.; Secure A Cycle/Shredway of Matraville, New South Wales, Australia; Secure Records Solutions of Thomasville, Ga.; Shred Aware of Eureka, Calif.; Shred Works of Oakland, Calif. and ShredYourDocs.com of Apple Valley, Calif. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Owl Electronic Recycling has achieved R2:2013, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certifications for its facility in Augusta, Ga.
Sims Recycling Solutions has achieved R2:2013 certification at the company’s electronics recycling site in Stalybridge, United Kingdom.
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Microsoft alleges a recycling company willfully advertised and sold refurbished computers with unlicensed copies of its software.