Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) Chief Compliance Officer and co-founder Aaron Blum was one of the expert panelists to address delegates at the E-Scrap 2008 Conference & Tradeshow held in Phoenix, Arizona. Blum’s speech included detailing the effects of recycling of e-waste in regulated environments and how it is possible to safely and effectively recycle electronic waste (e-waste) in all 50 states.

Blum was part of a panel that also featured Craig Lorch of Total Reclaim / EcoLights NW; Toral Jha of Cascade Asset Management; and Billy Andrews of Uniwaste Services Corp. The moderator for the panel discussion was Jason Linnell of NCER.

E-Scrap 2008 is sponsored by Resource Recycling Inc., publisher of Resource Recycling magazine as well as E-Scrap News. The event is the referred to as the “largest electronics recycling conference in North America” and is held in combination with a tradeshow that allows collaboration between industry leaders, experts and business people. There were attendees and participants from more than a dozen countries.

“It’s an honor and privilege to have our own Aaron Blum be asked to speak as an expert on the subject of effectively managing the recycling of electronics in a state by state environment,” said Shegerian. “We tip our hats to the event organizers and the reporting team at E-Scrap News, who cover our industry so well and proactively promote the issues most important to our industry — one of the fastest growing and most environmentally crucial industries in the world today.”