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By rr_test_admin, 16 July, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14089" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Hard drive closeup in a server rack. ITRenew this January opened a  315,000-square-foot facility in the Kansas City area. | Maximumm/Shutterstock[/caption] ITAD providers may be struggling to access used devices amid office and school closures, but a company managing hyper
By rr_test_admin, 16 July, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14080" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Sorting equipment for e-scrap processing. A Titech Combisense sorter is part of the system Powerhouse Recycling purchased. | Courtesy of Tiger Group[/caption] Powerhouse Recycling will spend over $4 million to expand its North Carolina campus, providing space for an advanced shredding and separation system the company bough
By rr_test_admin, 16 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14083" align="aligncenter" width="900"]iPhone opened for repair. Apple recently announced the company's Independent Repair Provider Program is now open to repair firms in Europe and Canada. | Kevin Khoo/Shutterstock[/caption] Apple this month described the growth of a program that provides some
By rr_test_admin, 9 July, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14039" align="aligncenter" width="900"]HP logo on building window. In the U.S., 65% of HP employees identify as white. | josefkubes/Shutterstock[/caption] In the aftermath of Geoge Floyd's killing, a number of large companies have issued statements opposing racism.
By rr_test_admin, 9 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14049" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Taping a box for shipping. Mail-in electronics recycling has become more common in the era of COVID-19 as in-person collection events are cancelled. | mdbildes/Shutterstock[/caption] The coronavirus pandemic has strained e-scrap collection, but that's opening the door to an alterna
By rr_test_admin, 2 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14001" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Abandoned CRT material inside the former Closed Loop site. An overview of the abandoned material at the former Closed Loop facility on Fairwood Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. | Courtesy of DEC Enviro[/caption] Consultants estimate that recycling 30 million pounds of CRT glass at an Ohio warehouse w
By rr_test_admin, 2 July, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_13997" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Closeup of an e-scrap motherboard. Two e-scrap firms commented on business conditions during a recent webinar hosted by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. | DimiSotirov/Shutterstock[/caption] During a recent virtual meeting of e-scrap stakeholders, speakers o
By rr_test_admin, 2 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13991" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Monitors collected for recycling. In 2019, the E-Cycle Washington program's total weight collected was 21.4 million pounds, down from 25.3 million pounds in 2018. | Koy_Hipster/Shutterstock[/caption] For the first time, the number of flat-panel displays colle
By rr_test_admin, 25 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13916" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Recycling equipment in the eCycle Solutions facility. A view of the recently installed e-plastics sorting and washing line at eCycle Solutions. | Courtesy of eCycle Solutions[/caption] A major North American e-scrap company has invested approximately $1.5 million into a plastics cleanup line, partly to get