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Pharma giant picks surging Wake County town for 420-job, $700M facility
By David Purtell and Zac Ezzone – Triangle Business Journal
May 12, 2025
Updated May 12, 2025 11:50am EDT
A global biotech company is eyeing Wake County for a production facility that would create more than 400 jobs.
Genentech, a subsidiary of Swiss multinational health care company Roche Holding AG, wants to put a new facility in Holly Springs, representing a total investment of $700 million. The company plans to create 420 jobs with an average minimum wage of nearly $120,000.
Genentech, based in San Francisco, on Monday morning was approved for state incentives totaling more than $13 million. The company is also in line for local incentives totaling more than $33 million.
The Holly Springs plant will be the company's first production facility on the East Coast. The 700,000-square-foot high volume fill-finish facility will support Genentech's existing portfolio and future obesity medicines. Genentech focuses on drug discovery and development to treat serious and life-threatening diseases.
The company, with around 12,000 employees, is expected to create the jobs over five years from 2028 to 2032. Genentech also has facilities in Southern California, Oregon and Louisville, Kentucky.
TRIANGLE ECYCLING PICKS UP COMPUTERS FOR RECYCLING FROM ALL BIOTECH AND PHARMA COMPANIES IN HOLLY SPRINGS, NC
Triangle Ecycling Celebrated Earth Day by Ecycling Thousands of Pounds of Ewaste
Triangle Ecycling helped several of our corporate clients in RTP, Downtown Durham, Raleigh, Morrisville and Apex with employee ewaste recycling events in honor of Earth Day.
We are pleased to have been asked for our support in planning, marketing and picking up the computers, peripherals and other equipment collected from the companies and their employees.
Triangle Ecycling is a Durham-based nonprofit, our mission is to help make our community smarter, cleaner and more equitable. We do this by providing free tech education and electronics recycling services and by donating computers to nonprofits and public school students in need. We have educated more than 170 high school interns. We recycled over 150 tons of ewaste in 2024 and donated more than 500 computers.
We provide secure pickup and transport with our own team in the Mid-Atlantic region and nationwide with our trusted IT logistics partner. Once received in our shop, all hard drives are pulled from computers and data securely destroyed. We provide a Serialized Inventory and Certificate of Destruction. Our service provides a way for businesses and organizations to support sustainability and give back to their community at no cost to them.
What are the best reasons for buying a used laptop
1. Cost Savings
Significant Price Reduction: Used laptops are typically much cheaper than new ones. You can get a laptop with similar specifications at a fraction of the price, which is great if you’re on a budget.
Value for Money: Even if a used laptop isn’t brand new, it could still offer excellent performance for most daily tasks, providing great value for the price.
2. Environmental Impact
Sustainability: By purchasing a used laptop, you're contributing to reducing electronic waste (e-waste), which is a significant environmental issue. Reusing electronics helps minimize the need for new raw materials and reduces carbon emissions associated with manufacturing new devices.
Recycling & Reusing: The process of refurbishing and reselling used laptops helps give devices a second life and keeps them out of landfills.
3. Better Hardware for Your Budget
Higher-End Models at Lower Prices: With the money you save, you might be able to buy a laptop that is more powerful or has more features than you could afford when buying new. For example, you could purchase a high-end business laptop or gaming machine for the price of a mid-range new laptop.
Upgrades: Some used laptops might come with upgrades, like extra RAM or SSDs, that would cost more if bought new.
4. Depreciation
Avoid Initial Depreciation: New laptops lose a significant portion of their value the moment they're purchased. By buying a used one, you’re not taking that initial hit to the device's value.
5. Laptops for Specific Uses
Niche or Older Models: If you need a specific laptop model or older device for a certain use case (e.g., older software compatibility, gaming, or legacy hardware), a used laptop could be the best option. Certain brands or models that are no longer produced can be found at used markets.
Test Out a Model: If you're unsure about a particular model but don’t want to pay full price for a new one, buying a used one can let you test it out and see if it meets your needs.
6. Refurbished Options
Certified Refurbished Laptops: Many companies sell used laptops that have been professionally refurbished. These laptops often come with warranties, and they’ve been repaired, cleaned, and tested to ensure they function like new.
7. Available Warranties and Support
Warranty and Return Policies: Some sellers or manufacturers offer warranties even on used or refurbished laptops. This means you can still get customer support or have a device replaced if something goes wrong.
8. Flexibility for Non-Critical Tasks
Great for Secondary Devices: Used laptops are great for secondary purposes such as browsing the web, light office work, or using it as a secondary machine. If you're looking for something for basic tasks or a backup device, a used laptop is often more than sufficient.
9. Experimenting with Customization
More Room to Experiment: You can buy a used laptop and use it for things like upgrading parts (e.g., replacing the hard drive or adding more RAM), which can be a fun and cost-effective way to learn more about computers and hardware.
In the end, buying a used laptop can be a fantastic decision, especially if you're looking for a good deal, are environmentally conscious, or want a specific model without breaking the bank. Just make sure to buy from reputable sellers or platforms to avoid potential issues.
Canada, Mexico tariffs poised to disrupt recycling sector
by Colin Staub for eScrap News
The Recycled Materials Association warned of potential “severe” disruption to the materials recovery sector after tariffs targeting the U.S.’s largest trading partners took effect this week. Some tariffs on Mexican imports were paused for another month on March 6. Meanwhile, Canada’s proposed response includes tariffs on U.S. exports of recycled materials.
The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie
By Alexander Clapp
Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. From the New York Times
In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to happen.
Much of the West’s trash stopped heading to the nearest landfill and instead started crossing national borders and traversing oceans. The stuff people tossed away and probably never thought about again — dirty yogurt cups, old Coke bottles — became some of the most redistributed objects on the planet, typically winding up thousands of miles away. It was a bewildering process, one that began with the export of toxic industrial waste. By the late 1980s, thousands of tons of hazardous chemicals had left the United States and Europe for the ravines of Africa, the beaches of the Caribbean and the swamps of Latin America.
How proper e-waste management can financially benefit your company
From ESG milestones to significant cost savings, the business benefits of tech regeneration are something every company in South Africa needs to be prioritising. At this moment, companies across the country have old laptops, phones and other tech assets that have been sitting in drawers and storerooms for years. When the time comes to address this issue, companies often incur additional costs for destruction or inefficient recycling, and in some cases, improper disposal.
In all cases, the asset value is a write-off and depending on how often companies refresh their tech, this is an ongoing expense and logistical problem. It’s time South African businesses adopt a circular mindset and realise that there is a better way to handle ageing tech and e-waste that has tangible financial benefits alongside environmental ones. READ MORE…
Triangle Ecycling Opens New SoCal Office in Silicon Valley to Provide Corporate ITAD Services.
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Release Date: January 10, 2025
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Triangle Ecycling Opens New SoCal Office in Silicon Valley to Provide Corporate ITAD Services.
Triangle Ecycling today announced the establishment of its new ITAD service based in Tustin, California. Headed by its long-time Director of Ecycling, Christian Lopez, the office can do pickups for businesses and organizations anywhere on the West Coast. The company has been picking up computers and other electronics for tech, bio-tech, pharma and other industries for the past 14 years in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area, which includes Research Triangle Park.
“In 2021 we began picking laptops and desktop computers anywhere in the US with the support of our logistics partner.” said Larry Herst, Founder/CEO. “Many of our tech company clients in RTP also have offices in Silicon Valley so it made sense for us to establish an office covering Southern California. Chris Lopez has been overseeing our ITAD pickup and recycling service in Durham. He is a bilingual Spanish speaker who was born in SoCal so it made sense for him to head up the office.”
“Personalized secure pickup and NIST 800-80 Data Destruction are Guaranteed and a Certificate of Destruction are provided, as is a Carbon Reduction Receipt for ESG Reporting, says Lopez. We’ve found our clients in California are particularly focused on green practices and ESG considerations. We are well equiped to support their efforts.”
Triangle Ecycling of SoCal has unveiled a new website at https://triangleecyclingofsocal.com which includes local contact info and a form clients can fill out online to request a pickup.
Triangle Ecycling is an NC, LLC with a self-sustaining sister nonprofit organization. For 14 years it has been picking up and refurbishing computers and recycling all electronics. TE donates hundreds of laptops to nonprofits and families in need. It also runs a free computer tech educational internship program that has graduated over 160 public high school students. In 2024 the company kept 145 tons of ewaste out of landfills.
Rising Demand for ITAD Services in the Years to Come
Equity firm acquires majority stake in Sprout
Published: January 9, 2025
Updated: January 9, 2025
by Colin Staub
IT asset disposition company Sprout has received a majority investment from a New York City-based private equity firm, which predicts rising demand for ITAD services in the years to come.
Sprout and the equity firm, Recognize, today announced the deal, which closed in late December. They noted that current Sprout investor New Capital Partners, which has owned a stake in the company since 2019, will continue on as a minority investor. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
“Ultimately, this partnership with Recognized is going to enable Sprout to scale our impact on sustainability and secure data management,” Tom Allison, president of Sprout, said in an interview. “This partnership is helping us respond to the growing global demand for what I call sophisticated ITAD solutions.”
Windows 10 Support From Microsoft Ends This Year
How to prepare for Windows 10 end of support by moving to Windows 11 today
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As we approach the end of support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 20251, we want to ensure you are well-prepared for the transition to Windows 11. This milestone marks an important step in our mission to provide the most modern and secure computing experience possible for everyone whether at work, school, or home, and our commitment to continually improving Windows security as part of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI). We are incredibly grateful for your loyalty and passion for Windows 10, and we are working hard to make it easy to move to Windows 11.
This blog post is intended to help you prepare for Windows 10 end of support by outlining considerations for moving to Windows 11 today. Including:
Dell Poweredge R6525 H755N 2x 2.5" 2x EPYC 75F3 32 x 64GB 3200MHz 2x 1400W PSU
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The R6525 is a high density two-socket/1U platform specializing in data speed. The platform is perfect for OLTP workloads, running your e-commerce business efficiently. The R6525 is great for virtualization with impressive VMmark with vSAN benchmarks. Also, the R6525 has Ready Solutions available for HPC Life Sciences, Manufacturing, AI Retail loss prevention, and vSAN.
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Dell
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Rack Mountable
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AMD
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2 TB
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Dell PowerEdge R6525
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A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers
In rich nations, just a fraction of trashed electronics is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.
By Vince Beiser; Photography by Oyewole Lawal - Mother Jones
Thousands of Nigerians make a meager living recycling e-waste, a broad category that can consist of just about any discarded item with a plug or a battery. This includes the computers, phones, game controllers, and other digital devices that we use and ditch in ever-growing volumes. The world generates more than 68 million tons of e-waste every year, according to the UN, enough to fill a convoy of trucks stretching right around the equator. By 2030, the total is projected to reach 75 million tons. READ MORE….
Windows 11 Installation Assistant
Time to upgrade to Windows 11. If your computer can’t handle it, please come in to Triangle Ecycling.
There are 3 options below for installing or creating Windows 11 media. Check out each one to determine the best option for you.
Before installing, please refer to the PC Health Check app to confirm your device meets the minimum system requirements for
Windows 11 and check the Windows release information status for known issues that may affect your device.
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World U.K. Royal Mint starts extracting gold from e-waste: "What we're doing here is urban mining"
Updated on: August 7, 2024 / 12:58 PM EDT / CBS News
London - The U.K.'s Royal Mint, the country's official coinmaker, has opened a factory that will extract gold from e-waste to reduce its reliance on traditional mining and encourage more sustainable practices.
"The factory underpins our commitment to using sustainable precious metals and providing a new source of high quality, recovered gold," Sean Millard, Chief Growth Officer at The Royal Mint, said in a statement. "It allows us to reduce our reliance on mined materials and is another example of how we're working to decarbonise our operations." MORE…
Pretty funny - It takes the gold of more than 100 sticks of ram to make a coin the size of a penny.
Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out more sustainable ways to manage waste
Michaela Barnett, University of Virginia; Leidy Klotz, University of Virginia; Patrick I. Hancock, University of Virginia, and Shahzeen Attari, Indiana University
Sun, July 28, 2024 at 10:06 AM EDT
In our research on waste behavior, sustainability, engineering design and decision making, we examine what U.S. residents understand about the efficacy of different waste management strategies and which of those strategies they prefer. In two nationwide surveys in the U.S. that we conducted in October 2019 and March 2022, we found that people overlook waste reduction and reuse in favor of recycling. We call this tendency recycling bias and reduction neglect. Read More…
How electronics legislation fared this legislative season
Published: July 3, 2024
Updated: July 3, 2024
by Marissa Heffernan E-Scrap News
Legislative sessions are winding down for the summer. Some bills covering electronics and batteries made it across the finish line this year, while others stalled out. Here’s a roundup of what happened.
Extended producer responsibility for batteries passed for the first time in Illinois, while updates to existing laws passed in Vermont and Wisconsin. Vermont’s legislation expanded the type of batteries the program covers to include rechargeable batteries and battery-containing products. The bill in Wisconsin changed how manufacture targets are set, expanded to cover more peripherals and increased registration fees.
Bills updating or introducing EPR for batteries failed in Connecticut, Minnesota and Washington. A bill creating grants for battery recycling education also failed in Wisconsin.
Three more bills that would have changed electronics EPR programs failed in Hawai’i, Maryland and Minnesota.
There were more than 20 right-to-repair electronics bills introduced this year. So far, 11 have failed, eight are still active and three passed. READ MORE…
Scientists make technological breakthrough that could prevent tons of hazardous e-waste: 'We have created a new formulation'
Story by Leslie Sattler
Imagine a world where your old phone or laptop doesn't end up clogging a landfill but instead gets a new lease on life.
That's the promise of an exciting breakthrough from researchers at the University of Washington, according to Anthropocene Magazine.
The heart of an electronic device is the circuit board. These boards are made of tough plastics that make them difficult to recycle. As a result, hundreds of thousands of tons of circuit boards get dumped in landfills each year as gadgets become obsolete. Burning this e-waste to recover valuable metals creates toxic pollution that harms our air, soil, and water.
The UW researchers solved this problem by replacing the typical epoxy plastic in circuit boards with a special material called a vitrimer. When heated, vitrimers can flow and form new bonds, allowing them to be recycled repeatedly without losing integrity. READ MORE…
Triangle Ecycling Supports Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School with Laptop Donation
Triangle Ecycling is thrilled to be donating 20 laptops to support the mission of Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School. This is our second year supporting this summer reading program for Durham Public Schools elementary school children. It is well established that children “forget” a lot of what they learn in school during summer vacation. This program not only keeps them even, it get’s them ahead of where they were!
We couldn’t do this without the support of our local corporate clients whose laptops we “repurpose for good.” Learn more about the CDL Freedom School here.