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Cloud services and metal prices lift Sims margins

Published: August 20, 2020
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Sims Lifecycle Services saw a 13.9% increase in cloud volumes recycled during the 2020 fiscal year. | Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock

Sims Lifecycle Services secured four additional cloud customers during the last fiscal year, helping to boost its data center decommissioning volume to 24,600 metric tons.

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Microsoft revamps system for data center decommissioning

Published: August 20, 2020
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Microsoft is on track to increase its reuse of data center components by up to 90%. | Paolo Bona/Shutterstock

One of the world’s biggest cloud service providers has developed an asset disposition process that uses machine learning and other tools to handle more used material on-site.

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Specialty waste company acquires e-scrap operations

Published: August 13, 2020
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Scrap RAM modules for recycling.

Harsco pushed further into the electronics recycling space over the past year with the acquisitions of Clean Earth and Stericycle. | vladdon/Shutterstock

Harsco Corporation over the past year made two acquisitions that brought the company into the electronics recycling space, according to its annual sustainability report.

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Connecticut boosts prices it pays to e-scrap firms

Published: August 13, 2020
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Under Connecticut’s extended producer responsibility program, municipalities perform the bulk of e-scrap collections. | Suzanne-B/Shutterstock

Processing companies said multiple factors led them to raise recycling prices in Connecticut this year. Some cost pressures are unique to the state but others are being felt industry wide.

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Morgan Stanley faces lawsuits from ITAD data mishap

Published: August 6, 2020
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Morgan Stanley says it has not detected unauthorized use of personal information related to the recent data security incidents. | Chim/Shutterstock

Financial institution Morgan Stanley recently told customers an ITAD vendor’s mistakes may have left personal information susceptible to misuse. Multiple clients have filed suit against the investment firm.

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Feds confirm they will stop buying used computers

Published: August 6, 2020
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The U.S. GSA said canceling used or refurbished computer purchases supports the ongoing federal IT modernization initiative. | MarkGomez/Shutterstock

Despite hearing objections from refurbished equipment dealers, the U.S. General Services Administration will finalize its decision to halt government purchases of used and refurbished computers.

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Abandoned Closed Loop material seems destined for disposal

Published: July 2, 2020
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Abandoned CRT material inside the former Closed Loop site.

An overview of the abandoned material at the former Closed Loop facility on Fairwood Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. | Courtesy of DEC Enviro

Consultants estimate that recycling 30 million pounds of CRT glass at an Ohio warehouse would add $1.7 million to a $5 million cleanup bill, so they’re proposing to landfill the glass instead.

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