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[dropcap]I[/dropcap] never envisioned myself owning a business.
As a relative introvert, I studied computer programming in college in the early 1990s and landed a job wit
E-scrap and hazardous material processor AERC has drawn investment dollars from a commercial recycling company and its parent holding company.
Allentown, Pa.-based AERC Recycling Solutions was recently acquired by Hatboro, Pa.-based Clean Earth Inc., a commercial waste and recycling management company.
The largest probe to date of used devices supposedly scrubbed of their data found that 40 percent still retained some amount of personal information.
Conducted by the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID), the study examined a random sample of 258 smartphones, tablets and hard drives.
Converge currently has 23 employees.
A Minnesota company is distancing itself from the wider metals recycling market to focus squarely on end-of-life electronics processing.
Integrated Recycling Technologies (IRT) this week announced it is moving into a 42,000-square-foot facility in the city of Waite Park, Minn.
Greenpeace targets smartphones in a new report, and a workplace chemical exposure rule may be delayed due to a White House directive.
Device demand drops: Worldwide shipments of new personal computing devices, including PCs and tablets, are expected to decline, according to a new forecast by the 
A Department of Homeland Security-sponsored campaign now counts ERI among its educators.
ERI has joined the 
Sims Metal Management's e-scrap business is generating less revenue but managing to increase earnings.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), which operates 29 e-scrap facilities around the world, saw earnings of nearly 11.1 million Australian dollars (about $8.5 million) during the first half of the 2017 fiscal year, according to 
Sims Recycling Solutions has made a concerted effort to target higher-value assets in recent years. The company's sales chief says that strategy is progressing, but that its implementation has not always been simple in a complex global marketplace.
According to Sean Magann, vice president of sales and marketing at Sims, the company's scrap recycling roots have
As the IT asset disposition industry matures, market factors are pushing hard toward more asset reuse rather than commodity sales.