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1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive nationwide company dedicated to simplifying and enhancing the consumer recycling experience, has announced that its “My Recycle List” app has been named the “Best Environmental Mobile App”…
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Welcome to urban mining and e-recycling
The worsening problem of garbage disposal worldwide is being met by an equally soaring high tech determination to stop it before the planet drowns in its own waste. Scientific American…
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Alcoa upbeat on demand outlook as end markets in ‘good shape’, says CEO Klaus Kleinfeld
ALCOA swung to a first-quarter profit as the global economic recovery continued to help aluminium prices, and the company maintained its forecast for strong global demand for the metal this…
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Regulators, Recyclers and Retailers Build ‘Urban Mining’ Industry
Each year, new electronics hit the market and capture consumers’ attention, giving them reason to throw away the old VCR or standard television and engross themselves in state-of-the-art gadgetry. Most…
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How to Find an Electronics Recycler Near You – Earth Day
With Earth Day around the corner, we wanted to share a few easy ways to find an electronics recycler near you. By this time, you are likely familiar with online…
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Electronic Recyclers International’s California Facilities Receive OHSAS Certification
Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, announced today that it has received official letters of registration and certification from independent auditor QMI-SAI Global that ERI’s…
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The Story of Electronic Waste (and how you play the most important role)
April 22nd is Earth Day, and I had the opportunity to interview John Shegerian, CEO of Electronic Recyclers International, the largest e-waste recycler in the United States. The company has…
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Giving Electronic Rejects a Second Chance
The downer in buying a new gadget is in ditching the old gizmo. The mental gymnastics set in almost immediately. Sell it? Donate it? Trash it? To make matters worse,…
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Recycling electronic waste: Earth Day resolution?
Each year, Americans throw out 400 million units of high-tech trash – and they’re on track to toss another 50 billion over the next decade, according to a study released…
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5 Reasons to Consider Hiring an Ex-Prisoner
John Shegerian is an entrepreneur, environmental and social issues activist, international speaker and the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International who has employed hundreds of ex-convicts in the past…