A bill from Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar provides federal funding to help local municipalities invest in electronics reuse and recycling. | Supachai Pakdeesrisakda/Shutterstock
Legislation introduced last week establishes federal grants to boost electronics recycling and reuse.
Arrow Electronics will close the asset disposition side of its business by the end of the year. | basiczto/Shutterstock
The closure of Arrow Electronics’ ITAD business drew readers’ attention last month, along with stories about a CRT stockpile lawsuit, repair restrictions and an OEM’s recycling efforts.
Ongoing economic uncertainty has contributed to the freight market shift. | Vitpho/Shutterstock
Multiple factors have led to lower demand for trucking, bringing shipping cost relief to many in the recycling industry.
Using a state-of-the-art laser facility, University of Pennsylvania chemists will research how they can use kinetics in e-scrap metal separation strategies. | Photo courtesy University of Pennsylvania.
A $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support research into better separation of metals in consumer electronics.
Outside of its ITAD division, Arrow is a massive supplier of electronic components and posted 2018 sales of $30 billion. | Suphaksorn Thongwongboot/Shutterstock
The shutdown of a major ITAD business has generated unprecedented response from fellow asset disposition companies, which are looking to pick up customers left without a service provider.
In the runup to the 2019 E-Scrap Conference and Trade Show, we are offering up a series of interviews with different industry leaders set to take the stage.
Managing e-scrap is a growing challenge and opportunity in Asia. | weedezign/Shutterstock
A business acquisition will bring British technology for extracting valuable e-scrap metals to the Asian market.
The rulemaking would have allowed exports of tested and working devices. | Alexey Lesik/Shutterstock
The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided not to pursue regulations restricting some e-scrap exports, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
The companies below have either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certification destruction services: 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.
Ace Data Storage of Gulfport, Miss.; CI Information Management of Kennewick, Wash,; Computer Recycling Center of Springfield, Mo.; De Graaf Security of Amsterdam; Shredall of Bestwood Village, Nottingham, U.K.; Shredall Scotland of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, U.K.; Shredlogix of San Jose, Calif.; ShredTex of Houston; Shred-X Secure Destruction of Winnellie, Northern Territory, Australia; TechnoCycle of Houston; Tri-State Shredding of Harrisburg, Pa.; and United Ability doing business as Gone for Good of Birmingham, Ala.
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