Research partially funded by a prominent IT asset disposition company led to the development of a non-toxic method for recycling e-plastics.
Research partially funded by a prominent IT asset disposition company led to the development of a non-toxic method for recycling e-plastics.
Providing less than a day of warning, China began imposing a 25 percent tariff on recovered aluminum shipments from the U.S. this week.
Readers last month were drawn to a variety of developments, including coverage of a new processing facility, a disposal settlement and metals recovery research.
All Points Mobile Shredding of Stuart, Fla.; Corporate Records Management of Dallas; Metro Record Storage and Shredding of Bakersfield, Calif.; Royal Document Destruction, Inc. of Gahanna, Ohio; The DocuTeam LLC of San Luis Obispo, Calif.; and Winters Bros Waste Systems of West Babylon, N.Y. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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A handful of United Nations entities have announced their collaboration to improve e-scrap management.
A byproduct from corn harvesting is a key component in a new method of e-scrap leaching.
Researchers on two continents have recently made breakthroughs on the use of leaching techniques to recover critical materials from e-scrap.
The Indian government has released rules intended to bolster an organized system of e-scrap processing by gradually increasing collection requirements for manufacturers.
The 2018 spending bill approved by lawmakers and signed by the president last week contains good news for the U.S. EPA and its recycling-related programs: The agency avoided significant budget cuts that were proposed last year.
Testimony from a data security industry group appears to have spurred government interest in strengthening regulations preventing data breaches.
1st Choice Shredding of Rustburg, Va.; Beacon Secure of Tucson, Ariz.; EnTrust Records Management of Richmond, Va.; Ranger On-site Document Shredding of San Antonio; Royal Shredding of Duluth, Ga.; Shred Alaska of Anchorage, Alaska and Shred-South of Statesville, N.C. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, e-End of Frederick, Md. has renewed its NAID certification for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
Dedicated Networks of Ramsey, Minn. has achieved R2:2013 and RIOS 2016 certifications.
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