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WASTE NEWS - September 2003
E-recycling industry continues evolution
Joe Truini
It may not be getting any easier or any cheaper, but
the electronics industry is growing as players try to
recover what seems to be an inexhaustible supply of
material.
"Some of the smaller people are not in the business
any longer," said Brian Brundage, CEO of Intercon
Solutions Inc. in Chicago. "Larger firms also are
streamlining operations to more effectively handle material,
which is not hard to find," Brundage said. "There
are so many more monitors and so many more CPU's out
there than anybody really has a clue," he said. "there
are just warehouses chock-full of this material all
over the U.S."
Despite the challenges, the industry is growing. Operational
costs for the most part aren't decreasing, but electronics
recyclers increasingly are able to justify higher prices
to customers wanting to rid themselves of obsolete electronics.
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