Ingram Micro committed to having all of its processing facilities achieve e-Stewards certification within three years. | POP-THAILAND/Shutterstock
A nationwide electronics stewardship group has agreed to make its best effort to only contract with e-Stewards-certified processors. Meanwhile, a global ITAD firm will seek e-Stewards certification for all its facilities.
About 8 million pounds of TVs are stored on pallets at the former GES site in Winchester, Ky. | Courtesy of Kentucky Division of Waste Management.
In Kentucky, a treatment additive will be mixed into millions of pounds of leaded CRT glass, allowing for relatively cheap disposal of the problematic material in a non-hazardous waste landfill.
Server farms typically refresh their equipment every three to five years. | Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock
A data center decommissioning firm is expanding its operations, and a new company leader says this sector of the e-scrap industry will grow alongside the exponential increase in cloud computing.
Rare earth metals from production scrap will make their way into Apple iPhones. | MikeDotta/Shutterstock
Apple will start using post-industrial recycled rare earths in its iPhones, a company executive told Reuters.
Around Dawsonville, Ga., the way to electronics recycling is literally at the end of Asset Recycling Way.
