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Triangle Ecycling to Sponsor 46th annual Festival for the Eno

We’re excited to announce the 46th annual Festival for the Eno. Immerse yourself with live music, a juried craft show, food, and fun on the river. Tickets are on sale now. Don’t miss our amazing lineup of musicians headlined by Dom Flemons, Empire Strikes Brass, Dr. Bacon, and Shirlette Ammons!

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The Eno River Association

The Eno River Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1966 with a mission to protect the natural, cultural and historic resources of the Eno River basin in northern Durham and Orange counties.

The Association has protected over 7,800 acres of natural and working lands and has helped create five local, state, and regional nature parks, including Eno River State Park, Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area, West Point on the Eno City Park, Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve, and Little River Regional Park. The Association continues to acquire land and secure easements, as well as provide stewardship, education programs, and the annual Festival on the Eno to inspire others to prioritize our local, natural resources. 

Amazing Deals on Refurbished Corporate Laptops

Visit Triangle Ecycling’s eBay store for deeply discounted prices on refurbished corporate laptops from Dell, Lenovo, HP and more. Also find deals on desktop computers, RAM, hard drives and lots of other electronic equipment.

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.

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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.

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.

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How proper e-waste management can financially benefit your company

By Colin Williamson

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…

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"

Haley Ott

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…

Sunnking processed 23.3M pounds of e-scrap in 2023

Updated: June 13, 2024
by Marissa Heffernan

ESG Reporting Takes OFF!

After a rebrand earlier this year to focus on environmental, social and governance reporting, Sunnking Sustainable Solutions in New York released its first ESG report, laying the groundwork for short- and long-term goals and reporting on its 2023 numbers. 

The 40-page report aims to “openly communicate our sustainability journey, outlining our objectives, achievements and plans that will foster ongoing enhancements in our environmental efforts,” it stated. 

The company rebranded in the spring specifically to reflect the wider suite of services it offers beyond asset recovery and to emphasize four areas of services: ITAD, asset recovery, data destruction and environmental, social and governance reporting. It also announced that it planned to release its first ESG report. 

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Computer Recycling: Your Go-To for Electronics Spring Cleaning

Computer Recycling: Your Go-To for Electronics Spring Cleaning, Leading the Charge in Responsible E-Waste Management

Thursday, 09 May 2024 10:45 AM ACCESSWIRE

Discover how Computer Recycling in Chevy Chase, MD leads the way in environmentally sustainable solutions for managing electronic waste (e-waste). Learn about their commitment to ethical disposal practices, cutting-edge recycling facilities, data security protocols, and two decades of industry expertise.

CHEVY CHASE, MD / ACCESSWIRE / May 9, 2024 / As spring brings about the annual ritual of cleaning and decluttering, Computer Recycling in Chevy Chase, MD emerges as the foremost solution for responsibly managing electronic waste (e-waste). With a commitment to environmental sustainability and early adoption of innovations in recycling practices, the firm sets the standard for conscientious disposal of obsolete desktops, laptops & electronics.

In an era where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, the disposal of electronic devices presents a significant environmental challenge. Rapid advancements in the tech sector shorten the lifespan of devices, and with a higher rate of equipment disposal, the amount of electronics being discarded improperly also rises. Furthermore, e-waste contains hazardous materials such as lead, mercury, and cadmium which can pose serious risks to both public health and the environment if not handled properly. Recognizing this pressing issue, Computer Recycling has dedicated itself to providing ethical, efficient, and eco-friendly solutions for electronic waste management. READ MORE

PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support

by Marissa Heffernan escrap news

As Microsoft prepares to end support for a huge number of Windows 10 devices, the Public Interest Research Group has started a petition to extend the support period for the operating system.

Microsoft plans to stop providing security updates for Windows 10 in 2025. According to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), an NGO focused on consumer protection, public health and transportation, up to 400 million of the 1 billion Windows 10 devices still in use will be affected. 

PIRG recently delivered 20,000 petition signatures to the company calling for Microsoft to extend support to prevent the devices from entering the waste stream.  MORE…

How ESG can help businesses grow

https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap

Published: October 11, 2023
Updated: October 11, 2023
by Marissa Heffernan

Recycling companies big and small can benefit from publicly sharing their environmental, social and governance strategies, no matter how complicated the process might seem at first. 

At the 2023 E-Scrap and E-Reuse Conference held in New Orleans Sept. 18-20, industry experts gave advice on how to get started with environmental, social and governance (ESG) reports and why they matter for everyone. 

The Sept. 19 session, “Leveraging Your ESG Expertise,” brought together as panelists Natalie Betts, assistant vice president of sustainability for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI); Curt Greeno, president of Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations; and Naomi Manahan, senior operations program manager for Reverse Logistics Group Americas. Corey Dehmey, executive director of Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), moderated. 

The idea of making ESG plans has been taking hold in the industry, the speakers agreed, and requests for such plans will only continue to rise.  READ MORE…

California legislators send right-to-repair bill to governor

Updated: September 18, 2023
by Marissa Heffernan eScrap News

California’s right-to-repair bill for electronics awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, and supporters are lauding the years of work it took to get to this point. 

Jenn Engstrom, state director of the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), called the bill’s passage a “victory for every Californian” in a press release. 

“We can thank the scrappy group of tinkerers, consumers, environmentalists and small business owners who came together to take on the tech industry and win back the right to fix our own stuff,” she said. “When you buy something, you should be able to do what you want with it.”

The California Assembly passed the bill on Sept. 12 with a 65-1 vote, and after the Senate concurred on Sept. 13, it went to the governor’s desk.

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Right to repair: all the latest news and updates

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

Tech companies haven’t always made it easy for consumers to repair their products. Without the manuals, parts, and tools we need, there aren’t many options available, and lobbying paid for by many big companies has worked to keep it that way.

Thankfully, the right-to-repair movement has picked up momentum over the past couple of years, putting pressure on giants like Apple, Samsung, Google. READ MORE>>>

California again considers higher e-scrap payments

Published: May 10, 2023
Updated: May 12, 2023
by Marissa Heffernan

eScrap News

California e-scrap recyclers could see a boost to their state payments under a proposed rate increase motivated by high inflation and other factors.

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) adjusts the amounts paid to recyclers to cover the average net costs of collecting and recycling covered products. Due to the passage of SB 1215 in 2022, that will occur on an annual basis instead of every other year, starting in 2023.

Under California’s Covered Electronic Waste Recycling Program, the oldest regulated statewide e-scrap recycling program in the country, consumers pay point-of-sale fees for electronics with screens. The state then redistributes that money to e-scrap companies that are part of the program when they properly collect and recycle covered electronics. 

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