February 9, 2023

ERI’s Angie Ransom Discusses the Role of Data in ITAD and E-Waste Recycling at Reverse Logistics Association Conference & Expo

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Angie Ransom, Vice President of the Retail Division for ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, participated in a panel of experts on the multifaceted relationship between data and logistics yesterday at the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) 19th Annual RLA Conference & Expo at the Mirage in […]

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February 6, 2023

How To Prevent Lithium Ion Battery Fires

Vancouver, British Columbia’s Fire and Rescue Services put out warnings to residents to be careful when charging lithium-ion batteries due to a 5x increase in fires caused by these batteries. In the U.S., the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported more than 25,000 fires were caused by lithium-ion batteries in 2018.These batteries are in your […]

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Data centers should update their servers every few years
January 23, 2023

How Data Centers Decommission & Upgrade Servers

Experts agree that most data centers should upgrade their services every three to five years. Even if a system seems to be operating well, manufacturer warranties tend to end after three years, though some will go as high as five.More importantly, IDC and Dell found that server performance drops by 14% every year. By the […]

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January 19, 2023

ERI Opens New State-of-the-Art ITAD & Electronics Recycling Facility in Arizona

ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, announced today that due to steadily continued growth, it has opened a new recycling facility in Goodyear, Arizona (near Phoenix) marking the company’s 13th operational location and ninth full-scale recycling facility.We’re proud to open our newest state-of-the-art ITAD […]

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January 18, 2023

Why Alkaline Battery Recycling Is Critical For the Environment

In general, there are five categories of household batteries: Single-Use, Lithium Ion, Small Sealed Lead Acid, Nickel Cadmium, and Nickel-Metal Hydride. When batteries are rechargeable, they can be used hundreds or thousands of times before they stop holding a charge and must be sent for recycling. Single-use batteries are used once and disposed of. These […]

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January 17, 2023

ERI Becomes First Electronic Recycler & ITAD Company to Achieve Official Carbon Neutral Status

ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, announced today that it is now 100% carbon neutral for all of its operational emissions nationwide.Through years of dedication towards reducing the company’s carbon footprint along with its partnership with TIME CO2 (and the CO2.com platform), ERI has announced […]

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December 15, 2022

ERI Takes Operational Efficiency to New Heights with Proprietary SOAR System

ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, has launched its new internal system designed to harness proprietary A.I. and machine learning technology innovations to further enhance operational efficiency. The new system, called “SOAR,” is now fully operational.SOAR utilizes ERI’s proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) […]

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November 10, 2022

Ways To Prevent Lithium-Ion Battery Fires

Between 2012 and 2017, the Consumer Product Safety Risk Management System reported over 25,000 problems with overheated or failed batteries in more than 400 types of rechargeable or electric devices. You may have heard of some of these complaints. Laptop batteries that overheat and start a fire, e-bike batteries that start fires, or the most […]

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November 6, 2022

Why Is It Important to Recycle Your Used Electronics?

Only half of the states in the U.S. have enacted state laws that address electronics recycling. Most of these states use Producer Responsibility rules that require the manufacturers to pay for recycling. California uses an Advanced Recovery Fee. Consumers are charged a fee when they purchase electronics, and those fees pay for recycling.For states that […]

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