This article originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Over the past 20 years, e-scrap regulations that put the onus on manufacturers to finance takeback and recycling have taken shape in Europe, North America and other industrialized countries. Policymakers designed these extended producer responsibility (EPR) frameworks to reflect their governments’...

A producer responsibility organization is working to overcome the conundrum of engaging low-income material aggregators by providing them with new skills, trustworthy financial transactions and access to bank accounts.

India is looking for ways to ensure used electronics are safely and cost-effectively managed. To do so, policymakers must leverage the hundreds of thousands of people who are already engaged in unregistered collection and recycling activities.

This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Lima, Peru ­— June 2016 Just off Lima’s bustling Avenida Abancay lies a pedestrian-only byway called Leticia Street. It’s situated under a canopy of haphazardly strung electrical lines and flanked by once-brightly painted low slung buildings. Keep walking and the...

This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.Subscribe today for access to all print content. Lima, Peru ­— June 2016 Just off Lima’s bustling Avenida Abancay lies a pedestrian-only byway called Leticia Street. It’s situated under a canopy of haphazardly strung electrical lines and flanked by once-brightly painted low slung buildings. Keep walking and the street...