This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The passage that follows is an excerpt from "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale" by Adam Minter (available now from Bloomsbury). At this stage in the book, Minter is traveling in Ghana with two companions: Robin Ingenthron, owner of...

This article originally appeared in the November 2019 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The passage that follows is an excerpt from "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale" by Adam Minter (published this month by Bloomsbury). Used Clothing Exports occupies a series of rooms at one end of a generic single-story office building...

Backers of a proposed federal ban on e-scrap exports say such legislation will keep faulty parts out of the U.S. national security system. However, an expert on Asian markets says the action fails to get at the root of the issue and may actually increase our use of virgin materials.