The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: AERC Acquisition Company dba AERC Recycling Solutions, A Clean Earth Company, Modesto, Calif.;  AERC Recycling Solutions, A Clean Earth Company, Allentown, Pa.; American Retroworks dba Good Point Recycling, Middlebury, Vt.; American Secure Technologies, Burr Ridge,

With lithium-ion batteries becoming ubiquitous and increasing the risk of fires at recycling facilities, DENIOS is offering Rack Fire Protect buildings to protect staff and assets.

Life cycle management services company Clover Environmental Solutions acquired all of America's Remanufacturing Company's operating assets for an undisclosed amount. 

The environmental impact of data footprints is an important but largely overlooked piece of corporate sustainability, research from Blancco suggested. 

Two municipalities in Florida have sidestepped sending household e-scrap to their contracted processor for recycling and are instead hauling material to a waste-to-energy plant. 

ERI processed slightly fewer total pounds of electronics last year, but the weight of devices it diverted for reuse increased, according to the company's latest sustainability report. 

A bill to overhaul the Oregon E-Cycles program is currently on Gov. Tina Kotek's desk. 

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: By World Reciclagem de Partes e Peças de Electronicos of São Paulo; Cali Resources of San Diego; CDM Technologies of Shelby Township, Mich.; Consultora Vertmonde of Quito, Ecuador; DLJ Wireless of Plano, Texas; Ingra

The National Waste and Recycling Association commended Sens.

Montreal-based Polystyvert will build a pilot-scale ABS recycling facility as part of a push to adapt its polystyrene technology to other plastics.