Sims Recycling Solutions Canada has successfully become the first electronics recycling company in Canada registered to the international standard OHSAS 18001. OHSAS 18001 is an occupational health and safety management system enabling organizations to control and continuously improve its occupational health and safety risks.
3/Mar/2010
Sims Recycling Solutions, the World’s Largest Electronics Recycler, recently announced its membership in the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse (ERCC), a forum for coordination and information exchange among the state and local agencies that implement electronics recycling laws and impacted stakeholders.
11/Jan/2010
Sims Recycling Solutions, the World's Largest Electronics Recycler, has restructured their daily consumer drop-off activities at its Illinois facilities. Effective January 1st, 2010, Illinois residents are encouraged to recycle their electronics directly with their original manufacturers outside of scheduled take-back events.
5/Jan/2010
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the expansion of its corporate social responsibility program in the San Francisco Bay Area with the unveiling of a winter season green recycling program at ten K-12 schools in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). The community program with the first event beginning on December 19, aims to broaden community awareness about responsible electronics recycling
14/Dec/2009
In order to highlight Sims Recycling Solutions' recent feature on the Emmy nominated television show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, Sacramento's CBS 13 stopped by the local plant to see just how dirty electronics recycling can be. As CBS 13's David Begnaud found out, the job is not necessarily dirty but can be dangerous if not done properly.
4/Nov/2009
Sims Recycling Solutions Canada is proud to announce that it was successfully honored with a gold distinction at the Recycling Council of Ontario's 2009 Ontario Waste Minimization Awards held last night at Ontario Place's Atlantis Pavillion. This award recognizes Sims Recycling Solutions leadership in the field of environmentally sound electronics recycling.
23/Oct/2009
The Daily Herald recently published an article titled "Area Industry Poised to Grow with New Economy" on July 17, 2009 that focuses on Chicago area industries that stand to benefit from the recent government tax incentives for renewable and green technology. The Daily Herald believes that companies who specialize in green building, recycling, and alternative energy sources will start to see a rise in business as the government starts rewarding those who choose to make greener choices in life. Sims Recycling Solutions was featured as one of these industries that is expected to grow due to the growing environmental concerns with electronics recycling.
21/Jul/2009
Sims Recycling Solutions is proud to be part of a successful electronics-recycling program launched in Manitoba, Canada that allows residents to drop off their used electronics at depot locations and have them recycled for free.
16/Jul/2009
On Tuesday June 23, 2009 the PBS show Frontline aired a documentary, "Digital Dumping Ground," that focused on the trail of e-waste and where our electronics end up after they are broken down and "recycled" in the United States. Producer Peter Klein found that most of this hazardous waste ends up in Ghana, China, and India where many of the people are over-exposed to lead and other toxins that leak into the soil and air when the e-waste is crushed to make room for more. They also found that many of the hard drives are still intact and full of personal information, such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc., making the dumping grounds a very popular hangout for scam artists in these poverty stricken areas.
24/Jun/2009
When TV signals switch from analog to digital on June 12th do the responsible thing and recycle your television with the world's leading electronics recycler, Sims Recycling Solutions. There are many reasons you should not throw your TV set away, but the most important one is the environment. Televisions contain lead, a poisonous material and other hazardous waste that is safe when contained within the television itself. However, if the garbage truck or other heavy materials crush the TV, that hazardous waste can leach out into landfills and water supplies, causing damage to the environment.
11/Jun/2009
A study sponsored by BT and Sims Lifecycle Services and carried out by the forensic computer science laboratories at Longwood University in the US , University of Glamorgan in Wales, and Edith Cowan University in Australia has revealed that 34% of discarded hard drives still contain confidential data.
7/May/2009
Sims Recycling Solutions is proud to announce the recognition of our own Renee St. Denis in "Women in Environmental Management" by Waste & Recycling News.
6/Apr/2009
Sims Recycling Solutions in Roseville, CA opens its doors to the editors at Wired.com and shows them how electronics are recycled. Sims Recycling Solutions is the world's leading electronics recycler with locations spanning the globe from Australia to California, processing over 400,000 tons of electronic waste in a year.
2/Apr/2009
On Tuesday June 23, 2009 the PBS show Frontline aired a documentary, "Digital Dumping Ground," that focused on the trail of e-waste and where our electronics end up after they are broken down and "recycled" in the United States. Producer Peter Klein found that most of this hazardous waste ends up in Ghana, China, and India where many of the people are over-exposed to lead and other toxins that leak into the soil and air when the e-waste is crushed to make room for more. They also found that many of the hard drives are still intact and full of personal information, such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc., making the dumping grounds a very popular hangout for scam artists in these poverty stricken areas.
24/Jun/2009
Sims Metal Management Limited, formerly known as Sims Group Limited, has been named as one of the top 100 most sustainable corporations in the world at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
18/Feb/2009