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    Free TV Recycling ending for Michigan Residents ATR (Advanced Technology Recycling) Grand Rapids Michigan announced today they will no longer be accepting residential drop offs after August 1, 2018.  “The free program was rebooted during the Flint Water Crisis in 2016 and to date has prevented nearly 6 Million pounds of unwanted electronics…

ECS Refining Auction Closes for AMS Gear The ECS Refining auction scheduled to take place in Sacramento CA U.S. Bankruptcy court has ended with the winning bidder paying more than twice what was previously announced in E-Scrap news on July 19, 2018 .  Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR) was one of only 4 qualified bidders represented…

ECS Refining Bankruptcy Opens New Doors The ECS Refining bankruptcy case (# 18-22453-D-11) has shifted to liquidation and immediate facility closures across the U.S.  According to public court documents acquired through PacerMonitor U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Bardwill authorized W.Donald Gieseke the bankruptcy trustee appointed to this case to spend $657,000 from the failing company’s 1.06…

As seen in Resource Recycling Summer 2018 Magazine, many thanks to Dan Leif, Jared Paben and the editing team at Resource Recycling who did an amazing job on this case study, the printed version looks even better guys! One processor was recently tapped by a financial institution to securely destroy thousands of drives at multiple…

    Free TV Recycling ends for Michigan Residents ATR (Advanced Technology Recycling) Grand Rapids Michigan announced today they will no longer be accepting residential drop offs after August 1, 2018.  “The free program was rebooted during the Flint Water Crisis in 2016 and to date has prevented nearly 6 Million pounds of unwanted electronics…

Memorial Day 2018 Message from our COO Our heart-felt thanks goes out to every family that has endured the loss of a loved one serving in our military defending our freedom and way of life.  Please take a moment this weekend as you enjoy time with your families and friends to remember the gift given…

ECS Refining Bankruptcy Updates According to a court document ECS Refining filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy courts in Sacramento, California on April 24, 2018 in an effort to restructure a $32,888,318.00 debt.  Update, on July 2, 2018  ECS Refining shuttered all U. S. facilities and laid off their entire work force.   ECS…

ATR Buffalo, NY March 9, 2018 announced today they’re seeking OEM support and developing an IoT Recycling program to manage IoT (Internet of Things) devices. A new information revolution is present today via cloud computing, big data analytics, cognitive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) thus having created a new crop of smart devices. …

Nationwide Secure Destruction Experts Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR) Birmingham AL February 15, 2018 introduces innovative new approach to destroying 6,000 highly sensitive hard drives simultaneously throughout the U.S.   A large financial institution was faced with a perplexing dilemma on how to cost effectively destroy a significant number of sensitive assets distributed throughout the U.S….