With a Sept. 7 facility opening in Spokane Valley, Wash., Total Reclaim now has five locations. | Koy Hipster / Shutterstock
A new Total Reclaim e-scrap plant in eastern Washington will dismantle and aggregate a variety of equipment types before shipping material to Seattle for further processing, according to the company.
Rebranded as Green Wave Electronics, the combined business will expand into new e-scrap collection markets. | Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock
Atlanta-based QGistix recently purchased Green Wave Computer Recycling, an Indianapolis recycler, and will rebrand as Green Wave Electronics.
Li-Cycle’s Alabama facility has an initial planned capacity of about 5,500 short tons of lithium-ion batteries per year. | Sergii Chernov / Shutterstock
Li-Cycle will site a lithium-ion battery facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the latest node in the company’s planned hub-and-spoke model for recycling batteries in North America.
Sims Lifecycle Services recently opened an IT asset disposition facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. | Courtesy of Sims Lifecycle Services
Sims Lifecycle Services has opened a processing center in Mexico, where the company has seen growing demand for ITAD and data center decommissioning services.
A bill signed into law last month makes a number of changes to Wisconsin’s 11-year-old EPR law for electronics. | Sean Pavone / Shutterstock
Under a recently signed bill, all K-12 schools in Wisconsin will be able to recycle e-scrap through the state’s extended producer responsibility program.
Aluminum is one of the metals e-scrap companies recover from electronics, in addition to precious metals, copper and steel. | ST House Studio / Shutterstock
Aluminum prices have climbed to their highest levels in over a decade, providing a boost for processors extracting the non-ferrous metal from scrap electronics.
Details on the vendor involved in the Morgan Stanley data mismanagement case drew attention last month. | Mr. Tempter / Shutterstock
E-Scrap News readers last month were drawn to the latest revelations in a high-profile data mismanagement case, as well as articles about battery fires, processor profits, labor markets and shredding line improvements.
CORRecycling noted that no one was seriously injured in the recent facility blaze because most employees had already left for the day. | somsak-suwanput / Shutterstock
Colorado processor CORRecycling suffered a fire at its Grand Junction facility last week, and the company has temporarily closed its doors.