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.
As the e-Stewards electronics recycling standard goes through a series of updates, auditors must complete trainings on the new requirements.
Beginning Sept.
Whether it's a deal on data destruction or an opportunity for extra education, multiple organizations are taking full advantage of the attention Earth Day brings to the recycling world.
LCD devices contain many components that are commonly recycled, but the screen glass and the substance coating it are not among them.
The reason comes down to economics: The glass contains a soft metal called indium, which is concentrated at just one-tenth of the amount needed to make commercial recovery viable.
New York state regulators have fined a recycling facility for allowing lead and other hazardous materials to seep into the ground last summer.
Alpco Recycling must pay $225,000 over the next two years for improperly handling e-scrap, according to Rochester, N.Y.
Updates to the R2 standard continue to be developed, and a large e-scrap processing facility is under construction in South Australia.
R2 revisions: Work is continuing on an update to the e-scrap processor certification managed by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI).
Converge currently has 23 employees.
Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions.
The furnace initiative was announced in 2011, and the company aimed for completion within three years.
Colorado is one of just three states with an electronics landfill ban but no statewide e-scrap management program. An e-scrap executive in the state recently provided an update on how that system is working out.
In a recent webinar, Janice Oldemeyer, president of Onsite Recycling and its Colorado I.T.