California's e-scrap program took a hit when ECS Refining closed in June 2018, but it was anything but a critical blow. Other local and national e-scrap companies took up the slack.
ECS was once a nationwide e-scrap processor offering a variety of services.
E-scrap processor Cascade Asset Management saw resale prices rise for devices it handled over the past year, according to the company's recently released annual report.
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A larger Middle East location is allowing Sims Recycling Solutions to process growing quantities of electronics while improving security and reducing the risk of employee injury.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), the electronics recycling and ITAD arm of global scrap metals company Sims Metal Mana
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The Nulife property in Virginia is currently listed for sale.[/caption]
Nulife Glass has removed all CRT materials from its shuttered Virginia site, which was the last of the company's locations where leaded glass was being stored.
The CRT glass recycling company had already sen
Shredding, sorting and processing machinery that was used by shuttered processor ECS Refining is being sold via an online auction.
An auction house
In Uganda, end-of-life cell phones are collected before being shipped for recycling.[/caption]
Tech companies are seeing boosted demand for environmental leadership, and e-scrap management concerns continue to mark developing countries.
A processor will expand its headquarters, bringing additional inventory storage space and consolidating its Arizona processing operations in a single location.
ER2 will add 40,000 square feet to its Mesa, Ariz. ITAD facility, which opened in 2010. The expansion will more than double the 38,000-square-foot facility.