A.R.M.S. of DePere, Wis.; Assured Document Destruction of Las Vegas; Augusta Data Storage of Augusta, Ga.; Commonwealth Document Management of Danville, Va.; Data Shredding Services of Texas, Inc. II of Grapevine, Texas; DeVries Information Management of Spokane, Wash.; Document Destruction Services of Homer, Ga.; Document Shredding & Storage of Amarillo, Texas; Greene of Xenia, Ohio; H&R Shredding of Staunton, Va.; Kard Recycling Service of New Berlin, Wis.; Norfolk Disposal of Waterford, Ontario; On-Site Information Destruction Services of Iowa of Waterloo, Iowa; Papersavers Limited of Markham, Ontario; POS Remarketing Group of Wauconda, Ill.; Shred Guard of Saint John, New Brunswick; Smarter Shredding of Dallas and Time Shred Services (Shred Services Inc.) of Hillside, N.J. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Lewis Clark Recyclers of Lewiston, Idaho; Nextuse of Hampton, N.H.; and Opportunity Distributing of Minnetonka, Minn. have achieved their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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Last year, lawmakers failed to pass legislation reforming Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program. With the introduction of a bipartisan bill this year, some of them want to take another go at it.
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A company that manages mobile phone take-back programs has invested more than $1 million in a new processing site and plans to hire hundreds of workers in the coming months.