User-repair champion iFixit has released four new teardown guides in recent weeks, showing consumers the inner workings of a new set of devices.
The teardown manuals assign a repairability score on a 1 to 10 scale.
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
The refurbished smartphone sector is expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and a Seattle company aims to put its data analysis at the center of that development.
Retrace tracks e-scrap, specifically used cellphones, throughout the global market to give refurbishers and other e-scrap companies better data to
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Lima, Peru — June 2016
Just off Lima’s bustling Avenida Abancay lies a pedestrian-only byway called Leticia Street. It’s situated under a canopy of haphazardly strung electrical lines and flanked by once-brightly painted low slung buildings.
In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 182 million adults are illiterate, and 30 percent of young people are unable to read or write. Access to information and communication technology is critical to improving their educational and economic prospects.
A south Florida nonprofit group that trains and employs people with disabilities is closing one of its e-scrap drop-off facilities as it adapts to a changing market.
ARC Broward IT Asset Recovery will
When Sims Recycling Solutions begins talking with an IT asset disposition client, Sims staff will ask what the customer did before with its end-of-life electronics.
User-repair champion iFixit has released four new teardown guides in recent weeks, showing consumers the inner workings of a new set of devices.
The teardown manuals assign a repairability score on a 1 to 10 scale.
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.
The refurbished smartphone sector is expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and a Seattle company aims to put its data analysis at the center of that development.
Retrace tracks e-scrap, specifically used cellphones, throughout the global market to give refurbishers and other e-scrap companies better data to 
In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 182 million adults are illiterate, and 30 percent of young people are unable to read or write. Access to information and communication technology is critical to improving their educational and economic prospects.
If smartphone reclaimers and refurbishers think they're busy now, just wait until 2020.
A south Florida nonprofit group that trains and employs people with disabilities is closing one of its e-scrap drop-off facilities as it adapts to a changing market.
ARC Broward IT Asset Recovery will 
A New York-based electronics recycling company has moved into a bigger building, allowing it to expand operations and hire more employees.
When Sims Recycling Solutions begins talking with an IT asset disposition client, Sims staff will ask what the customer did before with its end-of-life electronics.