Tag Archives: Dec. 2017

Opening up on ITAD

Posted on March 25, 2018

by Dan Leif

Stemming an invisible threat

Posted on March 25, 2018

by Lloyd Andrew

Know Your E-Scrap Processor: Novus Solutions

Posted on March 25, 2018

by Jared Paben

Novus, which means “new” in Latin, is an appropriate name for this Georgia e-scrap processor. The company was founded only in 2016.

Posted in E-Scrap News Magazine | Tagged Dec. 2017, processors |

Global effects

Posted on February 7, 2018

by Bob Johnson

Posted in E-Scrap News Magazine | Tagged Dec. 2017 |

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The latest e-scrap industry news

Collector ordered to pay restitution for California fraud
The owner of a defunct Orange County, Calif. company must pay more than $150,000 in restitution after investigators found he defrauded the state’s electronics recycling program.
Processor: Lithium-ion battery troubles go beyond collection
California officials are considering regulating lithium-ion battery labels, but an e-scrap processor says they’re missing a bigger issue: Battery-containing electronics are increasingly expensive to process.
In My Opinion: In CRT mess, let’s protect the good guys
We may have gotten it all wrong. After almost two decades spent on setting up a policy framework to ensure that CRT TVs and monitors were sent to proper recycling channels, millions and millions of pounds of CRTs are instead stacked in warehouses across the country.
Asset theft contributes to Canada data breaches
After the first year of mandatory data breach reporting in Canada, it has become clear that lost or stolen records and devices account for a sizeable percentage of breaches.
REMADE announces funding for additional research projects
A government-backed institute that has funded e-scrap recycling research in recent years is accepting applications for another round of grants.
Certification scorecard: Nov. 14, 2019
The companies below have either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certifications: 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.
Processor joins mail-in e-scrap recycling program
A Nebraska e-scrap company has become the fourth processor to take part in an initiative from TERRA that now covers portions of 13 states.