With its integration of upstream shredding and separation systems and downstream refining processes, Colt Refining and Recycling is oriented toward maximizing e-scrap metals recovery. That could leave the operation vulnerable to an evolving end-of-life stream with less metal and falling commodities prices.

Industry consolidation and soft metal and plastics markets resulted in a decline in membership by e-scrap processors in the last year in the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. E-Scrap News annually looks at ISRI’s membership rolls to find out how many pure-play North American e-scrap firms join the organization (we recognize that a good numbe

The parent of Regency Technologies is consolidating two northern Ohio facilities into a massive new location that’s under construction near Cleveland. The facility will be sited in Stow, Ohio and will be used by Regency parent company Reserve Management Group (RMG) for a variety of scrap operations.

Nearly 720 facilities worldwide are now certified to R2.

A recent write-up from a U.K.

Draft legislation would make Massachusetts the 26th state with a regulated e-scrap program. The legislation, S. 421 and H.

A Canadian ITAD firm has brought the concept of carbon credits into the refurbishment realm as a way of offsetting the carbon impact associated with purchasing new IT equipment. Compugen, a major IT service provider in Canada, launched a refurbishment arm a decade ago called Compugen Finance.

American Data Guard of Kent, Wash. and RW Lone Star Security of Temple, Texas have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives. PC Survivors of Massachusetts of Hanover, Mass. has renewed its R2:2013 and RIOS certifications.

Electronics recycling supports 920 jobs and injects more than $200 million into the Texas economy, researchers estimate. The Study on the Economic Impacts of Recycling was conducted by Burns & McDonnell for the

The IT asset disposition sector is facing “unprecedented uncertainty,” according to an industry expert, yet it is receiving more and more interest from outside investors. In a recent analysis, David Daoud of research and cons