Ontario’s Environment Minister Jim Bradley last week introduced a new Waste Reduction Act and Strategy, which would make numerous changes to the province’s solid waste and recycling management, including doing away with controversial eco fees on electronics purchases.
Investigations into CRT stockpiles and the filing of criminal charges over leaded glass disposal drew our readers’ attention last month.
Abrams Mobile Doc. Dest. Svc. of Thomasville, Ga.; Avritek of San Diego; Beckley’s of Rochester, Minn.; Dakota Data Shred of Sioux Falls, S.D.; LeMay Mobile Shredding of Lacey, Wash.; Royal Document Destruction of Gahanna, Ohio; Secure Destruction Service of Birmingham, Ala. and Stevens & Stevens BRM of Greenville, S.C. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
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Eco Shred of Lafayette, Ind.; Gilmore Services of Pensacola, Fla.; Mobile Document Destruction of Kankakee, Ill.; Northwest Shredders of Woodward, Okla.; Paper Recycling & Shredding Specialists of Pomona, Calif.; Richards & Richards of Nashville, Tenn.; Shred King of Holbrook, Mass. and South Bay Document Destruction of Gardena, Calif. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Secure e-Cycle of Kansas City, Kan. has renewed its NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization and physical destruction of hard drives.
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Action Shred of Texas of Dallas; Corrigan Record Storage of Novi, Mich.; Mars of Olympia, Wash.; Ohio Mobile Shredding of Columbus, Ohio and Reisswolf Randstad I BV of Wognum, Netherlands have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, ER2-Electronic Responsible Recyclers of Mesa, Ariz.; Electronic Responsible Recyclers-ER2 of Memphis, Tenn. and GEEP Canada of Brampton, Ontario have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization and physical destruction of hard drives.
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Romania remains well short of a 2021 European Union target for e-scrap collections, and Sims Metals Management brought profitability to its global e-scrap recycling business in fiscal year 2015.
Arrow Electronics has announced the opening of its first IT asset disposition facility in Singapore.
The Buffalo Bills make a drive for recycling, and Samsung is getting more backlash over its handling of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle.
An industry podcast made its debut this week, with host ITAD Technologies promising more episodes later this year.
The White House has issued an updated executive order on federal sustainability practices that noticeably leaves out green electronics standard EPEAT. The standard helps promote the recovery and reuse of many types of devices.