The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently:
ADL Process of Scarborough, Ontario; two Carrefour Environnement Saguenay locations in Saguenay, Quebec, and one in Edmundston, New Brunswick; eLot Electronics Recycling of Glenmont, N.Y.; G1 Asset Management of Yatala, Queensland, Australia; ITRenew Brasil Comercio de Equipmentos de Informatica e Servicos of Sao Paulo; ITRenew locations in Sterling, Va., and Olathe, Kan.; ITRenew ITAD Ireland of County Louth, Ireland; METech Recycling locations in Denver, Gilroy, Calif., Roxboro, N.C., Salt Lake City, and Worcester, Mass.; Universal Recycling Technologies locations in Clackamas, Ore., and Janesville, Wis.
After completing successful audits, the organizations listed below achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices.
Dakota Data Shred of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Expanco (dba AMPLIFY) of Fort Worth, Texas; Green Chip of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Human-I-T locations in Bell, Calif. and Detroit; Ingram Micro Services of Chandler, Ariz.; MDS Records Management of Des Moines, Iowa; NCS Global Services of Rochester, N.H.; Secure EWaste Management of Chino, Calif.; ShredAmerica Iron City of Pittsburgh; Shredding Solutions of Carlisle, Pa.; and TITAN Mobile Shredding of Pipersville, Pa.
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A nonprofit e-scrap recycling firm is shutting down at the end of the month due to low commodity prices and lack of business.
The e-Trash Transparency Project from Basel Action Network has, once again, opened American and Chinese eyes to the horror show of America’s global electronic waste dumping.
When we surveyed over 30 organizations for our Electronics Recycling Landscape Report last year with the Sustainability Consortium, the vast majority had negative things to say about the current state of U.S. e-scrap recycling programs.
A U.K. telecom works to provide needy people with used phones, and Indian authorities intercept thousands of illegally imported used copy machines.
A bill limiting exports of scrap electronics has been reintroduced in Congress, after it failed to advance in 2016.
The future will bring substantial changes in the e-scrap recycling world, and companies will have to adapt to remain competitive, industry leaders said at the International Electronics Recycling Congress. 
Washington state has never before collected fewer pounds of electronics through its e-scrap program.