Apex Shredding of Berthoud, Colo.; Gone for Good of Birmingham, Ala. and SecureDocs of Minneapolis have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, DMD Systems Recovery of Tempe, Ariz. and Li Tong Group of Fo Tan, Hong Kong have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for computer hard drive sanitization as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
PowerOn Services, doing business as Reuse, Inc., of Roseville, Calif. has achieved ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, OHSAS 18001:2007 and R2:2013 certification.
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Most people agree electronics should be recycled rather than thrown away, but consensus quickly evaporates when discussing how the costs should be paid.
A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
Even if an e-scrap facility is not thought to be processing toxics-emitting devices, it should be testing for toxic substances.
A Pennsylvania county gets its first collection center years after the state’s electronics landfill ban was enacted, and Washington state reports lower collection weights than a year ago.
Dell says it has consumed 50 million pounds of post-consumer plastics, including millions of pounds of resin from recovered electronics.
China’s recent crackdown on imports of e-scrap and other materials has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.