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Employees outside the newly acquired processing facility in Costa Rica. | Courtesy of Quantum Lifecycle Partners
One of Canada’s largest e-scrap processors has made the leap to Latin America.
Employees outside the newly acquired processing facility in Costa Rica. | Courtesy of Quantum Lifecycle Partners
One of Canada’s largest e-scrap processors has made the leap to Latin America.
Samsung supports collection of e-scrap of any brand at uBreakiFix U.S. locations, of which there are now 570. | Zigres / Shutterstock
Shortly after establishing an e-scrap collection partnership, Samsung and the repair-focused franchise uBreakiFix have launched a recycling awareness campaign.
The deal gives Regency Technologies a total of nine facilities and over 1,000 employees. | mojo cp/Shutterstock
This story has been updated.
Regency Technologies has purchased GEEP USA, giving the already-large processor facilities in Michigan and North Carolina.
St. Louis-based EPC opened a 4,000-square-foot facility near Lima, Peru. | Wollertz/Shutterstock
Processor EPC recently expanded with a location in Peru, boosting the company’s presence in Latin America.
Court records detail how much material was stored at each 5R site, estimated cleanup costs and who will shoulder the financial burden of removing the hazardous waste. | Boonchuay1970/Shutterstock
A property owner paid $1.1 million to clean up e-scrap abandoned by 5R Processors in Tennessee. State regulators say a similar effort in Wisconsin will cost close to $2 million – and could come out of public funds.
News that reverse logistics firm OnePak would begin reporting a Carbon Offset Cost for each pickup drew attention last month. | Siwakorn1933/Shutterstock
Last month, readers took interest in articles covering metals markets, an ITAD carbon offset program and processors in multiple sectors.
Researchers explained that their method demonstrates metal purification can occur at much lower temperatures than typically used. | nikkytok/Shutterstock
Iowa State University engineers have developed a method that uses oxidation technology to recover pure precious metals from e-scrap.
An investigation found numerous instances of e-scrap contract dustups tied to three companies started by Bruce Manssuer: Diversified Asset Recovery, Secure Recycling and Cornerstone Technologies.