Electronics keep getting smaller and lighter, but the Computer Recycling Center keeps boosting diverted weights each year.
E-Scrap News Magazine
Tagged Dec. 2016
Electronics keep getting smaller and lighter, but the Computer Recycling Center keeps boosting diverted weights each year.
When it was founded around the turn of the millennium, Sunnking saw device refurbishment as king.
Tech Dump employs 50 people, many of whom have struggled to find or maintain steady work.
For e-scrap recycling organization Tech Dump, it’s not all about the recycling. It’s also about the people doing the work.
Novus, which means “new” in Latin, is an appropriate name for this Georgia e-scrap processor. The company was founded only in 2016.
For e-scrap success, a key is staying on top of technology shifts. That fact is exemplified by an East Coast processor that has evolved its data destruction process of late.
R2 Corporation was still a new face in Houston when Hurricane Harvey struck Texas’s largest city about a year ago, bringing with it devastating flooding. But that didn’t stop R2 Corporation from going above and beyond to help.
Advanced Technology Recycling opened a Las Vegas ITAD facility and relocated its Salt Lake City-area site into a larger space.
Dakota Data Shred of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Information Protection Services Inc | Shred Boss of Roswell, N.M.; Northeast Data Destruction of Mansfield, Mass.; Regency Technologies of Tumwater, Wash.; Rocky Mountain Document Destruction of Salt Lake City; RW Lone Star Security of Temple, Texas; Secure Destruction Service of Birmingham, Ala.; Secure Destruction Service of Huntsville, Ala.; Sims Recycling Solutions of West Chicago, Ill.; Southland Shredding of Ontario, Calif.; UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. and Without A Trace Mobile Shredding of Scarborough, Maine have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Confidential Materials Destruction Service of New Territories, Hong Kong; Electronic Responsible Recyclers – ER2 – Memphis of Memphis, Tenn.; Liquid Technology of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Secure e-Cycle of Kansas City, Kan. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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BAN staff member Chris Brandt installs a GPS tracker into an LCD screen in Ireland.
The Basel Action Network today released its latest e-scrap export tracking study, this time highlighting shipments from European Union countries to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Judicial and processor-specific articles took top spots in terms of readership last month, along with a story about federal battery recycling efforts.