The company’s process uses microorganisms to scavenge precious metals from circuit boards. | raigvi/Shutterstock
An e-scrap firm using microbes to recover metals from electronic scrap has launched a processing facility to demonstrate its technology.
The company’s process uses microorganisms to scavenge precious metals from circuit boards. | raigvi/Shutterstock
An e-scrap firm using microbes to recover metals from electronic scrap has launched a processing facility to demonstrate its technology.
Arrow Electronics will no longer receive devices at its facilities after Aug. 5. | basiczto/Shutterstock
Global ITAD services provider Arrow Electronics will close the asset disposition side of its business by the end of the year, after the company experienced two quarters of worsening financial returns.
Regulatory changes could prevent the U.S. from exporting e-plastics to a number of countries. | rawf8/Shutterstock
Federal regulators are asking countries that are major buyers of U.S. scrap plastic to refrain from implementing new trade restrictions laid out in the Basel Convention, a treaty covering global scrap material shipments.
CRT TVs stacked for recycling. |CHAINFOTO24/Shutterstock
As many operators take a breather this holiday week, we are presenting a list of our most-read stories from January through June (in terms of unique page views).
A number of e-scrap-related items were addressed in Dell’s 2019 sustainability report. | Courtesy of Dell
A global OEM says it has achieved its 2020 electronics recycling and recycled feedstock goals. The company also adopted e-scrap tracking as a permanent part of its recycling vendor auditing program.
Congruity of Pembroke, Mass.; DataSafe of Vacaville, Calif.; DocuVault of West Deptford, N.J.; Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations of Nashville, Tenn.; e-End of Frederick, Md.; Electronic Responsible Recyclers-ER2 of Memphis, Tenn.; ER2-Electronic Responsible Recyclers of Mesa, Ariz.; ERI of Plainfield, Ind.; EWASTE+ of Victor, N.Y.; File Shred of Glastonbury, Conn.; Greentec of Cambridge, Ontario; Guardian Data Destruction of South Hackensack, N.J.; Li Tong Group of Fo Tan, Hong Kong; Liquid Technology of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Nextuse of Dover, N.H.; PACE Enterprises of West Virginia of Westover, W.Va.; PC Liquidations of Jacksonville, Fla.; Recycling & Recovery Assets International of Vulcan, Alberta; Re-Teck Asset Management of Wiener Neustadt, Austria; The Paper Predator by DDC of Kentucky of Shelbyville, Ky.; Time Shred Services of Freeport, N.Y. and Tri State Shred of Dubuque, Iowa have either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certifications for data destruction services: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, overwriting of physical hard drives, overwriting of solid state devices or degaussing.
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The status of a CRT glass treatment option was of high interest last month. | underworld/Shutterstock
A range of topics grabbed readers last month, including CRT disposal, ITAD growth and OEM developments.
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Microsoft recently submitted comments in opposition to right to repair. | VDB Photos/Shutterstock
In comments to federal regulators, Microsoft recently explained why the company might choose repair-hampering design factors when developing its products.
Three major electronics brands recently made recycling- and repair-related announcements or released new figures on their materials recovery progress.
An Illinois landfill disposition program for funnel glass is being phased out after five years.
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