Category: News Room

Green is Good Radio Show Announces Spring Lineup of “Sustainability All-Stars”

America’s top green radio show, the national weekly “Green is Good” program, which is now available to listeners nationwide via the “America’s Talk” lineup on iHeartRadio, has released its lineup of guests for April and May.Guests interviewed for the Spring will include representatives from many of the best-known brands, businesses and non-profit organizations leading the […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Profiles Recycling Efforts in Toronto, Minneapolis, Lexington, Madison, Boulder and Other North American Cities

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience while making practical suggestions about green living, continues to provide consumers with new regional recycling profiles, expanding on its series of blog articles about the unique recycling options and programs in various metropolitan areas throughout the US and Canada.The regional “Recycling Profiles” […]

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Preparing for a ‘quantum leap’ in Egypt’s e-cycling

Egypt: RecycloBekia, ‘the first company in the Arab world to offer green recycling of electronic waste’, is collaborating with major online shopping platform Jumia Egypt to encourage consumers to recycle their unwanted electronic devices.The partnership will enable Egyptian consumers to request an e-scrap pick-up, and participation in the scheme is to be rewarded with ‘recycling […]

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UrbanMining.org Shares News from Africa

UrbanMining.org, the world’s leading online urban mining brand and informational website dedicated to providing educational content on the subject, continues to provide unique perspectives on urban mining from all over the world, with one of its latest reports sharing news from Agbogbloshie, Ghana, where locals have been suffering from health-related side-effects of global e-waste dumping.The […]

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Electronic Recyclers International Unveils New Website Innovations

Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, has announced the launch of a number of new innovations and improvements to its interactive website.The new look and feel of ERI’s website enables users to explore regularly updated content of ERI and the electronic recycling industry in general.The site also now offers an […]

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Green is Good Radio’s John Shegerian Named “#1 Male Green Talk Show Host on Radio” by Ecycle Best Blog

John Shegerian, host of America’s top green radio show, “Green is Good,” has been named the #1 male green talk show host on the radio by Ecycle Best, an electronic recycling blog. The blog recently published a ranking of its “Top 5 Best” male green radio hosts in the country with Shegerian topping the list […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Launches Site and System Enhancements

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive system dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience has announced the launch of a number of new enhancements. The system, available as downloadable app, interactive website and 24-hour phone service, provides its users everywhere in the United States with a dedicated tool to find recycling locations nearest to them (every […]

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ERI CEO Cites Neiman Marcus Cyber-Thief Incident as Reminder that “Nobody is Safe” from Identity Theft

Citing Neiman Marcus, the latest major retailer to suffer from a headline-getting consumer data security breach, John Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, has issued a public statement warning retailers and consumers alike to take extra precautions to protect their private digital data and records […]

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Developing world overtakes the U.S. in e-waste

Now that the holidays are over and so many gadgets have been replaced with the newest versions of TVs, cell phones and tablets, a story on e-waste in the U.S. was inevitable.This year is different, however, because for the first time, emerging countries are throwing out even more electronics than we are in the U.S. […]

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We’re Losing the War against E-waste, New Report Says

The post-Christmas season is an e-waste high water mark in the United States. New computers, phone docks, wireless speakers, and watches under the Christmas tree crowd out the old(er) ones. What isn’t donated or recycled usually makes its way to the trash. And a recent study by the United Nations University and MIT has details […]

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