Apr
07
2010
After collecting roughly 96 million pounds of electronic waste at locations in the United States, Dell and Goodwill Industries are teaming up with a Goodwill affiliate called Renaissance in order to extend the Reconnect program to locations in Southwestern Quebec and London, Ontario. There are currently about 1,900 locations.
The computers and accessories collected through the [...]
Apr
01
2010
Sprint will amp up its mobile phone recycling efforts next week through the National Cell Phone Recycling campaign, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The carrier’s goal is to recover approximately 90 percent of its handsets sold by 2017. Last year, it took in about 42 percent of what it sold (that was up [...]
Mar
31
2010
Given that more and more enterprise and midsize businesses are studying what they should do with their e-waste and how they should deal with it, it’s little wonder that there are several different industry efforts cropping up to claim their attention.
In my mind, there are two big organizations for you to watch: The Basel Action [...]
Mar
25
2010
There’s a new report out about trends in IT asset disposition (aka e-cycling, refurbishment and other related topics). The study, conducted by Converge and Osterman Research, found that smaller and midsize companies are greatly increasing their programs related to aging computer hardware that is being take out of service.
According to the 2010 Converge ITAD Trends [...]
Mar
25
2010
Similar legislation is now being considered in 20 other states, including Minnesota and California.
Mar
23
2010
If you’re in the market for a new mobile phone, don’t fret about how to get rid of the old one. Two former big-name CEOs from the mobile and consumer electronics worlds (former pooh-bahs of Radio Shack and Sprint) have apparently teamed up to create a company dedicated to recycling your cast-off. Several news reports [...]
