Alphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings call put a number on the AI buildout: $44.9 billion in quarterly capex, with guidance raised to $195–$205 billion for the year. For ITAD and recycling providers, the real story isn’t the revenue growth, it’s the asset volume that spending signals down the line.
ERI confirms ITAD shift toward minerals
Electronic Recyclers International’s newly released fiscal 2025 Impact Report details the company’s environmental, governance and operational performance, while also offering a window into how one of North America’s largest ITAD and electronics recycling companies...
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.
How critical mineral alliances aim to shape the future of e scrap metals
ReElement Technologies, a company that specializes in refining rare earth elements and battery materials from both...
Metals and electronics recycling firms report stronger downstream trends
Recent disclosures from three leading metals and electronics recycling firms point to resilient earnings and generally...
Raised Aurubis guidance sends positive signal for circuit board and metals recovery markets
Hamburg-based metals recycler and smelter Aurubis has raised its full-year earnings forecast after reporting stronger...
Q1 earnings confirm a wave of decommissioning work ahead for ITAD
The current earnings season shows continued momentum in the tech sector with positive implications on the ITAD sector....
Iron Mountain puts ITAD at the center of its growth story, but exposures to component prices and hyperscale demand could test it
Iron Mountain's first-quarter results look exceptional on the surface, and in many respects they are. But a closer...
Apple leads on inputs, faces questions on ITAD
Apple’s latest environmental milestone, a claim that 30% of the material in all products it shipped in 2025 was...
Data Security: Windows AI Recall is pushing data destruction upstream
Every Copilot+ PC that arrives at an ITAD dock this year is potentially carrying something that didn’t exist on a...
Secondary Market: Intel boosts margins by selling what it used to scrap
On April 27, Resource Recycling reported on Intel’s latest earnings call. But the company’s results also contained a...
Corporate News: Peters-Michaud named CEO, Houghton chair of Sage Sustainable Electronics
Sage Sustainable Electronics, the Closed Loop Partners–backed IT asset disposition (ITAD) company that has rolled up...
Markets/Corporate: What Intel’s blockbuster quarter means for ITAD
Intel’s first-quarter 2026 earnings report landed with a force few on Wall Street anticipated. Revenue came in at...
Markets: The whitebox blind spot in PC recycling
There’s a growing segment of the PC market that doesn’t show up in shipment data and in market share reports, and...
Markets: PC shipments grew in Q1, but questions remain
Two closely watched PC market reports released in April painted what looked like an encouraging picture for the device...
Analyst Opinion: The independent ITAD at a crossroads
The US independent ITAD sector is in the middle of a shift that most participants are experiencing in fragments rather...
Markets: Less premium smartphone inventory is reaching recyclers
Assurant’s latest mobile trade-in data shows that the best smartphones are being pulled into reuse and refurbishment...
General: Bloom ESG and e-Stewards roll out critical metals metric
Bloom ESG and e-Stewards have added a critical metals conservation metric to their jointly developed Environmental...