When Sims Recycling Solutions begins talking with an IT asset disposition client, Sims staff will ask what the customer did before with its end-of-life electronics.
Recently, I had to go to Ikea to get some office gear. And I’m always struck by the same thing when I wend my way through the labyrinth that is that retail establishment, the just-so nature of all of their pre-fab rooms.
Government agencies have started cleaning up the toxic aftermath of a fire at a Los Angeles-area metals and e-scrap recycling facility. Clean-up costs are expected to total in the millions of dollars.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration isn't the reason a recycling firm should be concerned about safety. An industry expert said recycling companies of all kinds – from e-scrap processors to materials recovery facilities – should make safety a priority because it's the right thing to do.
Basel Action Network's e-Trash Transparency report had the potential to produce positive results and spur constructive changes within electronics recycling, but instead it risks alienating large sections of the global industry.
Carey Hamilton, executive director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition and a board member of the National Recycling Coalition, has succeeded in her bid for a seat in the legislature.
Hamilton, a Democrat, was elected to an Indiana House of Representatives seat with 52 percent of the vote, election returns showed.
Insurance fraud at an e-scrap operator, federal action to close an electronics reuse company and news on a CRT processor are among the stories that captured readers’ attention last month.
1 | Insurance fraud could land e-scrap operator behind bars
The owner of a New Jersey electronics recycling company could spend three years in prison for insurance fraud.
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Recently, I had to go to Ikea to get some office gear. And I’m always struck by the same thing when I wend my way through the labyrinth that is that retail establishment, the just-so nature of all of their pre-fab rooms.
The Buffalo Bills make a drive for recycling, and Samsung is getting more backlash over its handling of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle.
More Samsung fallout: Greenpeace is blasting Samsung