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Issue 10: Compliance Gaps, Quarterly Insights, and Market Shifts

There’s quite a bit happening across the compliance landscape, earnings season, and strategic partnerships that’s worth paying attention to:

Compliance Weaknesses Across the Electronics Chain

Recent findings from Basel Action Network and EPA’s settlement with Apple are evidence of environmental compliance gaps in the broad IT and ITAD industries. BAN’s investigation showed certain ITAD operators shipping e-waste to jurisdictions with import restrictions, while EPA cited Apple’s Santa Clara facility for hazardous waste violations involving solvent classification, emissions routing, and inspection gaps.

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Research: Memory Inflation, Component Spillover, and ITAD Harvesting Strategy, 2026-2027

the component market is undergoing substantial transformation. Memory prices have doubled. Enterprise SSD supply won’t normalize until late 2027 at the earliest. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off helium supply critical to chip fabrication, stalled hyperscaler data center builds, and driven freight costs high enough to break international remarketing economics. China’s rare earth export controls — with a key suspension expiring November 10, 2026 — are adding licensing friction to the same semiconductor supply chains that determine what secondary market hardware is worth.

Presentation: ITAD Sector Review: April-to-mid-May 2026

This is the client's presentation covering April to mid-May 2026. It is designed to address general trends observed by Compliance Standards and look at what April and early May 2026 headlines collectively meant for the ITAD and electronics recycling sectors.  Below...

M&A: DMD acquires ITAD firm Lifespan, outlines acquisition strategy

DMD Systems Recovery has detailed an aggressive, multi-phase acquisition strategy in the IT asset disposition (ITAD) space and confirmed that the first deal under that framework involves acquiring the Lifespan ITAD business from Bluum Technology.   Lifespan is a...

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