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ELECTRONICS 
February 14, 2018 Partnership to Launch Next Generation Electronics Recycling Company
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Recycling industry veterans Jill Vaské and Robert Houghton announced that they have together formed Sage Sustainable Electronics LLC (http://www.sageSE.com) in order to set new standards for electronics reuse and repurposing. The pair previously founded Redemtech in 1998, a two-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in IT Asset Disposition, leading the company until its […]
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CLOTHING 
December 11, 2017 How good is H&M’s clothing recycling program?
People walk past the window of a H&M store in Paris, France. Credit: Regis Duvignau/Reuters The clothes we wear come with their own environmental baggage. Consider that a cotton T-shirt requires roughly 700 gallons of water to produce. Each year, the production of polyester emits roughly 1.5 trillion pounds of greenhouse gases. As the fashion industry […]
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ELECTRONICS 
May 4, 2017 Xiaomi India Offers Discounts in Exchange for Recycling Your Old Electronics
Xiaomi has announced an e-waste management programme called Mi India Product Take-Back & Recycling Program for the country. As the name of the programme suggests, the company will be taking non-operational electronic products, irrespective of their brand, for recycling purposes and, in exchange, provide them with Rs. 100 discount coupons, which can be used at […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 23, 2016 Managed Systems Breaks the Cycle with Electronics Recycling Initiative
NEW YORK — (June 30, 2008) — According to the EPA, American consumers and businesses disposed of 2.63 million tons of electronic waste in 2005 and only 12.5 percent of that was recycled, leaving 87.5 percent to become landfill waste or incinerator ash. With that disturbing statistic in mind, Managed Systems, delivering proven technology solutions […]
