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Author: SLS Media

April 21, 2021

Sims Lifecycle Services and Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity Open Doors for Affordable Homeownership

by SLS Media

Sims Lifecycle Services has partnered with Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity (RCHFH) to provide front doors for the next 10 Habitat houses being built in the new Legacy Pointe subdivision of affordable housing. “We’ve had a wonderful ongoing relationship and support from Sims over the years,”, stated RCHFH Executive Director Terri Shultz. “This donation…

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Posted in: Sims Announcements
February 25, 2020

GUIDE: Managing a Smooth Transition to a New Global ITAD Service Provider

by SLS Media

The process of changing to a new vendor can be intimidating, however appropriately resourcing vendor-to-vendor transitions minimizes risk and adds value. You completed your selection process, RFPs are reviewed, and the best scoring vendor has been selected. The stakeholders in your organization are satisfied and all the hoops jumped through. The contract is signed, sealed…

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Posted in: Global ITAD Solutions, IT Asset Disposition, Sustainability
aviation data security
February 13, 2020

E-WASTE: Safety and Sustainability in the Airline Industry

by SLS Media

Ensure aviation data security and offset carbon emissions through responsible IT resource management. Data Security: Aviation IT security is a top priority. The global airline industry has continued to grow over recent years, which inherently brings an increase in data threats. A global airline CEO survey disclosed that 85 percent of airline CEO’s view airline…

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Posted in: E-Waste (WEEE) Recycling, Global ITAD Solutions, Sustainability
January 22, 2020

MARINE PLASTIC LITTER UPDATE: OECD Harmonization of Basel Plastics Amendments

by SLS Media

U.S. issues with transboundary movement of plastic waste for recycling Recently we reported that the Parties to the Basel Convention (187 countries) adopted an amendment to its annexes, governing the transboundary movement of plastic waste as a method to combat the issue of plastic marine litter. This amendment takes effect in January 2021 and controls…

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Posted in: E-Waste (WEEE) Recycling
Escrap 2019 Conference - Sims Recycling Solutions
August 19, 2019

E-Scrap 2019 Conference: Plenary Session II “Where Things Stand in Asia”

by SLS Media

Attending the 2019 E-Scrap Conference in Orlando? Do not miss Plenary Session II: “Where Things Stand in Asia”, where Sean Magann, Global VP of Sims Lifecycle Services is one of four scheduled to deliver a presentation on this topic. Presentations will discuss Asian import restrictions and explain how these are impacting (and perhaps altering) operations.…

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Posted in: E-Waste (WEEE) Recycling
data center decommissioning
August 15, 2019

Launching a data center decommissioning project? Here is what you need to know

by SLS Media

A checklist to help guide you through the hyperscale or traditional data center decommissioning process. How often do you replace your data center servers? While most servers last an average of five years, the timing to replace servers might be more specific to the data center itself. Considerations might include cost efficiencies and performance of…

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Posted in: Data Center Services
The Impacts of China’s Waste Import Restrictions
August 13, 2019

Processing Recyclables: The Impacts of China’s Waste Import Restrictions

by SLS Media

In 2017 and 2018, the Chinese government implemented waste import restrictions limiting or banning a variety of recyclable material they had previously accepted for processing. It was summer of 2017, when the Chinese first signaled this change in policy and notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that they would be banning the import of 24…

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Posted in: E-Waste (WEEE) Recycling
July 30, 2019

After Arrow, What is Next? How to Choose Your Next ITAD Vendor

by SLS Media

Global IT asset disposition service resources for those seeking an Arrow replacement On July 15, 2019, Arrow Electronics announced they were exiting the IT asset disposition (ITAD) market with this announcement. In short, they indicated, “The decision has been made to cease operations of the personal computer and mobility asset disposition business,” leaving many clients…

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Posted in: Global ITAD Solutions, IT Asset Disposition

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