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[caption id="attachment_13289" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] By acquiring CExchange, Echo Consolidated Holdings Group will now offer customers a full suite of services. | fizkes/Shutterstock[/caption] Echo Consolidated Holdings Group, a family of Dallas-area electronics recycling, ITAD and IT services companies, recently expanded into the mobil

Here is a look at which processing facilities have recently attained or renewed their data destruction and recycling industry certifications.

[caption id="attachment_2378" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Data shows that the total pounds processed through California's electronics recycling program have been falling since 2012. | Boonchuay1970/Shutterstock[/caption] This article has been corrected. Over the past three years, fewer of California's CRTs are going directly to hazardous waste

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, speaks at the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show. | Plastics Recycling Confe

[caption id="attachment_13250" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Battery fires are an increasingly relevant concern for electronics recycling facilities. | zeyaman/Shutterstock[/caption] A recently published guidance document helps recycling facilities draft plans to avert and mitigate fires. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Indust

With the roster of companies attaining third-party certifications or audits continuing to grow, E-Scrap News has compiled a roundup of recently certified firms.

[caption id="attachment_13246" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A European Commission plan calls for right-to-repair measures to be introduced by 2021. | Poravute Siriphiroon/Shutterstock[/caption] European lawmakers this week committed to enshrine greater device repairability in law, with their adoption of a Circular Economy Ac

[caption id="attachment_13208" align="aligncenter" width="900"] The recently introduced legislation covers solar panels in residential, commercial and industrial use. | Heinz Trebuth/Shutterstock[/caption] Legislation in Arizona would establish recycling requirements for end-of-life solar panels, requiring manufacturers to create a recy

[caption id="attachment_13209" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An EPC leader explained that the Edmonton region has sizable health care, energy and corporate sectors driving ITAD growth. | Maximumm/Shutterstock[/caption] The Canadian arm of ITAD operator EPC is expanding with a facility in the Edmonton area. CSI EPC, the compan