Sycamore International’s new solar panel array. | Courtesy of Sycamore International.
Sycamore International’s new solar panel array. | Courtesy of Sycamore International.
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.