[caption id="attachment_14567" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Gold prices reached nearly $2,000 a troy ounce in August. | savva_25/Shutterstock[/caption]
Driven by investors, gold prices have remained high throughout the year, even hitting a recent record high this quarter, according to The Wall Street Jo
[caption id="attachment_14568" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Fire officials told a local TV station they believe batteries started the blaze at Cleanlites Recycling facility. | Nuroon Jampaklai/Shutterstock[/caption]
A fire caused significant damage at an e-scrap recycling facility in Mason, Mich.
[caption id="attachment_13401" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Recycle Technologies processes a variety of electronics and lightbulbs at its two facilities.
[caption id="attachment_14514" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Retroworks de Mexico launched in 2007, associated with U.S. processor American Retroworks. | Photo courtesy Robin Ingenthron.[/caption]
After 13 years, Retroworks de Mexico will turn off the lights and shut the door next month.
After completing successful audits, the following organizations achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices.
Apto Solutions of Austin, Texas; Columbus Secure Shredding of Salt Lake City; Firelands Local of Norwalk, Ohio; Secure Shredding and Recycling
[caption id="attachment_14492" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The panel discussion included (clockwise from top left) Traci Phillips of Natural Evolution, Jason Linnell from the National Center for Electronics Recycling, E-Scrap News editor Dan Leif (moderator), S3 Recycling Solutions' Rod McDaniel, and Jessica Miller of Illinois EPA.
[caption id="attachment_14481" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Researchers found that mobile shredding of hard drives and other small electronics exposes workers to airborne and surface metals dust, as is the case with in-plant shredding. | Huguette Roe/Shutterstock[/caption]
Researchers have discovered that
[caption id="attachment_14470" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Bronte and Dominique, two consumers who in "Silicon Mountain" are tasked with trying to replace the batteries in their smartphones.[/caption]
With export scandals, CRT stockpiles and more, the electronics recycling industry has suffered its s