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Opinion: The Sims Leadership Changes Point to a Broader Generational Shift Across the ITAD Industry

Sims Limited’s executive leadership changes this week may be evidence of a generational transition surfacing across the industry regardless of ownership model, as the leaders who built ITAD over the past two decades begin handing off to whoever comes next.

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Should we pay attention to IBM’s quantum foundry?

Jun 4, 2026

IBM announced that it plans to launch a standalone quantum chip foundry company with support from a proposed $1 billion CHIPS Act award. The announcement adds another signal that the United States is accelerating investment in advanced computing infrastructure.

AI Vision Is Moving to Line in E‑Waste Sorting

Jun 2, 2026

AI‑driven camera sorting is moving into practical plant‑floor tools for ITAD and electronics recyclers. Early systems like Apple’s A.R.I.S. show that low‑cost vision models running on commodity hardware can drive pneumatic sorters at line speed and deliver high‑purity metal and PCB streams, suggesting that facilities which start piloting these techniques now will gain a structural edge on recovery, cost, and specification compliance over the next three to five years.