New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill overhauling the state's e-scrap program. It was identical to legislation he pocket vetoed in 2016.
Christie on Jan.
Citadel Information Management of Westmont, Ill.; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.Also, Reclamere of Tyrone, Pa.
An Arizona for-profit business shares electronics disassembly tips with a local nonprofit group, and a Minnesota county boosts fees it charges individuals who drop off display devices.
Knowledge sharing: An Arizona electronics recycling and hard drive destruction company shared some e-scrap disassembly knowledge with the nonprofit group Worl
The refurbished smartphone sector is expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and a Seattle company aims to put its data analysis at the center of that development.
Retrace tracks e-scrap, specifically used cellphones, throughout the global market to give refurbishers and other e-scrap companies better data to
The federal government will invest up to $70 million in a new research institute focused on reducing recycling costs and boosting recycled content in manufacturing. E-scrap is one focus of the initiative.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of the Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute, which will be headquartered in Rochester, N.Y.
China could hold enormous device-refurb opportunities, and BAN pushes for policy changes in South America.
Money on the Mainland: "It's virtually an untapped market." That's how Kerry Chen, an electronics refurbishment entrepreneur in China, describes the smartphone resale possibilities in the world's most populous nation.
Apple's earbuds get a zero on the repairability scale, and scrap writer Adam Minter is planning another book.
Rosy outlook: IBISWorld has updated a research report examining the electronics recycling sector.
This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.Subscribe today for access to all print content.
Lima, Peru — June 2016
Just off Lima’s bustling Avenida Abancay lies a pedestrian-only byway called Leticia Street. It’s situated under a canopy of haphazardly strung electrical lines and flanked by once-brightly painted low slung buildings.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill overhauling the state's e-scrap program. It was identical to legislation he pocket vetoed in 2016.
Christie on Jan.
The federal government has dramatically lowered permissible exposure limits for beryllium, a metal used in some electronics.
The U.S.
An Arizona for-profit business shares electronics disassembly tips with a local nonprofit group, and a Minnesota county boosts fees it charges individuals who drop off display devices.
Knowledge sharing: An Arizona electronics recycling and hard drive destruction company shared some e-scrap disassembly knowledge with the nonprofit group Worl
The refurbished smartphone sector is expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and a Seattle company aims to put its data analysis at the center of that development.
Retrace tracks e-scrap, specifically used cellphones, throughout the global market to give refurbishers and other e-scrap companies better data to 
The federal government will invest up to $70 million in a new research institute focused on reducing recycling costs and boosting recycled content in manufacturing. E-scrap is one focus of the initiative.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of the Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute, which will be headquartered in Rochester, N.Y.
China could hold enormous device-refurb opportunities, and BAN pushes for policy changes in South America.
Money on the Mainland: "It's virtually an untapped market." That's how Kerry Chen, an electronics refurbishment entrepreneur in China, describes the smartphone resale possibilities in the world's most populous nation.