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As CRT cleanup litigation reaches a conclusion in Ohio, a similar legal battle is ramping up in Arizona. | Courtesy of EnSafe
An $11.2 million cleanup, $9.6 million property sale and $1 million “orphan share” – those were just a few key figures to emerge as the years-long legal battle over Closed Loop’s massive stockpile concludes.
Oregon’s proposed bill would mandate access to schematics, tools and parts at a fair and reasonable cost and cover any household product – from computers to appliances – that contains digital components. | Alexey Kabanov/Shutterstock
Supporters of the right to repair consumer electronics are hoping that the third time’s the charm in Oregon.
KeyBank has provided money for dedicated space and equipment to teach financial wellness classes at RecycleForce’s new headquarters, which is under construction in Indianapolis. | Courtesy of RecycleForce
RecycleForce’s upcoming Indiana headquarters will provide not only training in e-scrap recycling but a dedicated space for financial wellness lessons, with help from KeyBank.
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.