Come to the Delwaware County Fairgrounds this Saturday, October 14th, between 9am and 1pm to drop off your old electronics for responsible recycling! Accurate IT Services is locally owned, operated, and R2 Certified in Columbus, OH. This ensures that your equipment will be handled securely, responsibly, and never see a landfill. We can accept most […]
A rare Apple computer from 1976 was recycled in California by a woman cleaning out her garage. Little did she know, that computer was one of only two hundred that were made by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne. Now the company is on the hunt to find this woman, who did not leave […]
CRT glass processor hit with $120,000 fine By Editorial Staff, E-Scrap News March 20, 2014 An Arizona plant operated by Pennsylvania-based Dlubak Glass has been hit with a $120,000 fine for improper storage and recycling of CRTs. During a routine inspection of the company’s Yuma, Arizona plant, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) officials discovered broken […]
By Jeremy Kaplan Published March 06, 2014 FoxNews.com It used to be wetlands, a recreation zone. Today the locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah. Slag heaps of rusting electronics, old refrigerators and monitors are scattered everywhere in Agbogbloshie, a dumping ground in Ghana for electronic waste from the rest of the world. On the banks […]
By. Dr. Thomas Engelhardt Last month CEA and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) ® announced the winner of the “CRT Challenge.” The goal was to identify financially viable, environmentally conscious proposals for using recycled CRT glass. This CRT challenge was a crowd-sourced technical competition to find new uses for old CRT glass, a powerful way […]
As Rep. Gene Green prepares to reintroduce the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act, a recent study says such legislation would generate numerous jobs in the U.S. However, the proposed legislation still has detractors. Curt Harler – Recycling Today APRIL 1, 2013 Electronics are part of our everyday waste stream. Many government officials say they feel the […]