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In My Opinion: In CRT mess, let’s protect the good guys

Published: November 14, 2019
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A current lawsuit focuses on which stakeholders are responsible when CRTs are stockpiled rather than properly recycled.Boonchuay1970 / Shutterstock

We may have gotten it all wrong. After almost two decades spent on setting up a policy framework to ensure that CRT TVs and monitors were sent to proper recycling channels, millions and millions of pounds of CRTs are instead stacked in warehouses across the country. Continue Reading

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Certification Scorecard: Dec. 5, 2019

Published: December 5, 2019
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The company below has either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices or degaussing.

Advanced Records Management of Plymouth, Minn.; Central Texas Shredding of Austin, Texas; Data Management Shredding of Terre Haute, Ind.; IT Asset Management Group of Farmingdale, N.Y.; Opportunity Distributing of Minnetonka, Minn.; and TechnoCycle of Houston. 

Visit our archive to view previous editions of the scorecard.

 

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OEM tells Congress independent repair poses safety concerns

Published: December 5, 2019
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Apple stated it does not act to “block” customers from choosing non-Apple-authorized repair shops. | Goran Bogicevic/Shutterstock

Apple, which is often criticized for adopting policies hampering independent repair, recently responded to questions from Congress on right-to-repair and other topics.

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Our top stories from November 2019

Published: December 5, 2019
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The closure of Glencore’s smelter in Belledune, New Brunswick captured clicks last month.

Stories about CRT processors, lithium-ion batteries, collection and expansion strategies drew our readers’ attention last month.

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Our top stories from October 2019

Published: November 5, 2019
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News about a flat-panel display processing technology captured clicks in October.

A mix of stories about a bankruptcy, merger, flat-panel processing technology and insights from the E-Scrap Conference and Trade Show drew our readers’ clicks last month.

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US e-scrap recycling rate declines

Published: November 22, 2019
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The U.S. recycling rate for consumer electronics has been trending downward since 2014.

The U.S. recycling rate for consumer electronics took a dive in 2016 and flatlined the following year, according to the U.S. EPA.

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