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.
A lawsuit alleging an e-scrap processor resold thousands of Microsoft Office key cards on the black market has been settled out of court.
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
New Life Electronics Recycling has indicated it has no assets and owes a total of more than $1 million to dozens of creditors.
As a result, Oswego, Ill.,-based New Life submitted a voluntary Chapter 7 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Illinois. It was submitted Jan.
The ERI facility in Lincoln Park, N.J.[/caption]
While many e-scrap companies have begun avoiding the CRT-heavy streams that define local government collections, the leader of one major processor says cities continue to be valuable partners for his firm.
ERI last week announced the opening of an e-scrap consolidation fa
UNICOR, also known as Federal Prison Industries, has shut down its electronics recycling facilities at several prisons across the country, leaving a sizable gap in the U.S.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration isn't the reason a recycling firm should be concerned about safety. An industry expert said recycling companies of all kinds – from e-scrap processors to materials recovery facilities – should make safety a priority because it's the right thing to do.
Schupan Electronics Recycling, a division of Schupan & Sons, Inc., is growing its processing line and has its eye on even more growth in the future.