Maryland-based Apkudo boosts supply chain efficiency to support repair, resale and recycling markets. | KovalchukOleksandr/Shutterstock
Apkudo, which helps companies manage connected devices, announced it received $37.5 million in Series C funding.
Maryland-based Apkudo boosts supply chain efficiency to support repair, resale and recycling markets. | KovalchukOleksandr/Shutterstock
Apkudo, which helps companies manage connected devices, announced it received $37.5 million in Series C funding.
A worker inspects shredded material at a Glencore sampling facility in Rhode Island. | Courtesy of Glencore
Glencore has been recovering copper and precious metals from e-scrap since the 1980s. But multiple trends are now forcing the world’s largest mining and metals company to adapt to changing markets: a push to decarbonize the transportation sector, efforts to shorten and bolster supply chains, and innovations in consumer electronics design and manufacturing.
Cleanup of CRT materials at Closed Loop’s Phoenix sites is estimated to cost $15 million or more. | E-Scrap News File Photo
IMS Electronics Recycling will pay $5 million to help clean up CRT materials abandoned at former Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sites in Phoenix.
“The ITAD Academy 2023” will educate IT leaders and managers on proper IT asset disposition practices, among other goals. | NicoElNino/Shutterstock
ITAD advising firm Compliance Standards launched an advertising and marketing initiative to showcase best practices in IT asset disposition.
Angola, Ind.-based Refreshed Tech brought in 148,000 units for refurbishment between its founding in August 2022 and the end of the same year. | Courtesy of Refreshed Tech
Refreshed Tech closed 2022 with $4 million in sales after just four months of operation and is poised to triple its sales and double its staff in 2023.
Cascade Asset Management stores assets in a warehouse. It released a survey of customers that found a persistent gap in mobile asset tracking and continuing lack of awareness about certifications. | Courtesy of Cascade Asset Management
Expectations for higher IT spending, a persistent gap in mobile asset tracking and continuing lack of awareness about certifications were among the surprising takeaways in Cascade Asset Management’s latest survey of customers.
Excir’s award is part of an overall sum of over $25 million Canadian dollars granted by the federal Jobs and Growth Fund to 15 Calgary-area businesses. | Bokstaz/Shutterstock
First appearing on a reality TV show, then signing with the British Royal Mint, Canadian e-scrap startup Excir is now continuing its growth with a federal investment of nearly $1.9 million for a demonstration plant.
E-Cycle Washington reported a 13% drop in electronics collected, following several years of decline. | Somchai-Som/Shutterstock
The total and per capita weight of scrap electronics collected in Washington state continued to decline last year. Continue Reading
A law will allow certified, nonprofit refurbishing companies to directly obtain, refurbish and distribute surplus government computers to veterans and others in need. | Dmitry-A/Shutterstock
A new law allows the federal government to provide surplus and repairable used computers directly to nonprofit refurbishers, who will then provide them to individuals in need.
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.