Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Benefits of Selling E-Waste

The speed of technological innovation is rendering electronics obsolete quicker every year, exponentially expanding the global stockpile of electronic scrap or e-waste as consumers trash the old to buy the latest tech. It may alarm some that, in 2014, 41.8 million metric tons of outdated and broken electronics were tossed globally, only 16 percent of…
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Turn cloth into cash

Used textiles and textile scraps are a largely untapped source of additional revenues for thrift stores, retailers, and clothing manufacturers. Textile recycling industries are dumping nearly 85 percent of post-consumer textile waste (PCTW), according to the Council for Textile Recycling. That’s a whole lot of lost revenue! Annual sales of used textiles, clothing, and shoes…
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Market Continues to be Affected by National Sword Effort

Every container entering China is now being inspected by the Chinese customs authorities using x-ray machines. These inspections are causing longer shipping times. Ports without an x-ray machine are advised to open each container for examination. Ports without the proper resources for these inspections are being closed.  In order to validate their weight, containers will…
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Berg Mill Expands Services in the South West

Berg Mill Supply can now say we own and operate a recycling processing plant of our very own! We recently purchased Yuma Recycling in Arizona. This move comes naturally, as we have been valued partners to Yuma Recycling for over thirty years. We intend to build on the previous ownership’s success with our global market…
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