What’s happening in the world of scrap recycling—and what’s around the corner? Find out here, where you can read up on curated and original content relevant to your business. You’ll get insights and updates on the latest trends from a variety of reputable sources.
by MariaFuster | Jul 31, 2020 | Articles
It’s early one summer morning. You go to switch on your PC, and it won’t power up. You try again, but there’s no response from any of your IT equipment. After investigating, the diagnosis is clear—your PC hardware has been damaged or destroyed by a...
by ScrapWare | Jul 14, 2020 | Articles
Manufacturing planes, trains and automobiles—or lipstick tubes for that matter—have one similar output. These processes all create impressive piles of valuable scrap metal. The manufacturing remnants are industrial scrap and are increasingly important in...
by ScrapWare | Jul 2, 2020 | Articles
The Covid-19 crisis has changed how businesses operate in a myriad of ways at an unprecedented speed. Because of lockdowns, supply chain disruptions and the need to protect public health, a variety of industries and institutions have come up with new ways of doing...
by ScrapWare | Jun 16, 2020 | Articles
In the quest to go paperless, most businesses today have moved much of their operation to the digital realm, using software and online applications. Many firms, however, still use paper for a critical element of business transactions: signatures. New applications to...
by ScrapWare | May 28, 2020 | Articles
Like a new piece of yard equipment, software has become an indispensable tool for recycling companies. Unlike the latest shredder, software is an intangible purchase, which can make choosing a recycling software solution seem daunting for business owners. The...
by ScrapWare | May 13, 2020 | Articles
Our nation has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two months. Early on, industries dealing with recycled material, solid waste or waste management were designated as essential and not subject to state-wide shutdowns imposed to stop the virus...
by ScrapWare | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles
Everyone has one. That box, drawer or shopping bag in a closet filled with old cell phones, obsolete chargers, broken tablets and defunct MP3 players. It’s our personal piles of electronic waste. According to government agencies, these piles...
by ScrapWare | Apr 21, 2020 | Articles
In uncertain economic times, businesses must be increasingly on the lookout for dishonest schemes to steal from employers. In this installment of “Tales from the Scales,” we look at one scrapyard’s unfortunate encounter with embezzlement and how they dealt with...
by ScrapWare | Apr 3, 2020 | Articles
The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the recycling sector, like all other sectors of the economy today. For recycling industries, the ripple effects of this global outbreak include service disruptions, closures and shifts in the volume of recycled materials, along...
by ScrapWare | Mar 22, 2020 | Articles
There is no doubt–recycling is on the rise today. Fueled by state and local mandatory recycling laws and consumer demand for environmental benefits, an increasing amount of material is heading into the recycling process to keep waste materials out of...
