Forget the next city or state over - Universal Recycling Technologies' Oregon facility will recycle e-scrap that traveled the equivalent of one-third of the circumference of the earth.
A Minnesota electronics recycling and reuse facility has hired four people with disabilities after becoming the latest company to graduate from e-Stewards' workforce inclusion program.
Cascade Asset Management found that selling used electronics through e-commerce marketplaces brought substantially more revenue growth than selling to wholesalers last year. The ITAD company still joined many others in suffering an overall drop in prices.
Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations launched a carbon calculator that will allow customers to estimate how many scope 3 emissions their recycling diverts. It also released its first Environmental, Social, and Governance report.
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.
Massachusetts e-scrap processor Complete Recycling Solutions has been acquired by TerraCycle US, a company that specializes in collection of regulated waste and other scrap streams.
Three worker deaths and a theft ring investigation upset operations at an Aurubis facility in Hamburg, Germany, and a serious fire shut down production at Rönnskär’s copper smelter in Skelleftehamn, Sweden.
Global metals recycling company Elemental reached a deal to acquire e-scrap recycling and ITAD company Colt Recycling. The agreement came shortly after Colt doubled its e-scrap recycling capacity in the eastern U.S.