The Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, Ill., has a clear and important mission – encourage reuse and recycling and discourage disposal. “The 43 municipalities that make up SWALCO’s membership work cooperatively toward one goal: keeping as much material as possible out of the landfill by reducing Lake County’s waste stream,” said Peter Adrian, recycling…
Sims Recycling Solutions Earns West Chicago Green Initiatives Award Sims Recycling Solutions received a West Chicago Brilliance in Business, Green Initiatives award in October. The West Chicago Brilliance in Business recognition program acknowledges the contributions that five outstanding businesses have made to help shape the community. Now in its fourth year, the program’s other award…
It’s a sobering visual: the total volume of electronic scrap generated worldwide between 2010 and 2025 will cover one square mile to a height of 268 feet—a quantity roughly equivalent to the area of New York City’s Central Park and the height of the Brooklyn Bridge—and weigh about 70 million tons, based on Pike Research’s…
Gone are the days when you could call to have your electronics collected for recycling without much thought to data breach prevention and penalties for noncompliance. Increasingly comprehensive e-waste and data security laws have continued to make companies liable for their obsolete devices and the data contained on those devices long after they have been…
In October, Sims Recycling Solutions will launch its newly redesigned website. Structured to meet the needs of several different audiences, including current customers, businesses, consumers, municipalities, and electronics manufacturers, visitors can easily navigate the new website to quickly locate information about Sims, its services, and the electronics reuse and recycling industry. The new look is…
Sims Recycling Solutions recently announced the company is pursuing e-Stewards certification at its 15 North American electronics processing facilities. As the first step toward this goal, Sims has signed a contract with Orion Registrar Inc. to certify each of its North American facilities over the next 18 months. The company’s facilities currently have ISO 14001,…
Jennifer Semrau, recycling specialist for Winnebago County, Wis., and her colleagues field calls nearly every day from residents who know their old computers and TVs don’t belong in the garbage, but are less certain about what should be done with those or any of the other electronic devices covered by 2009 Wisconsin Act 50. “Of…
Throughout the month of April, Sims Recycling Solutions held several collection events around the world in celebration of Earth Day—officially observed on April 22 this year—in an attempt to successfully set a new Guinness World Record for the “most consumer electronics recycled within 24 hours at multiple venues.” In the U.S., Sims held collection events…
Sims Recycling Solutions, Americas, recently opened a Miami, Fla., field office. This new office will allow Sims to better serve the company’s existing clients and to respond to an increased demand for compliant, secure, and sustainable solutions for end-of-life electronics from businesses located in South Florida and Latin America. Open since June 1, this stand-alone…
Sims Recycling Solutions has expanded its North American operations by acquiring E-Structors Inc., an Elkridge, Md.-based electronics recycler. The purchase was completed on September 4. E-Structors, one of the largest electronics recyclers in Maryland, Washington D.C, and Virginia, provides electronics recycling and document destruction services to companies across the United States. E-Structors’ clients include educational…