Georgia prepares to implement extended producer responsibility for electronics, and worldwide spending on IT equipment is predicted to rise.
Even if an e-scrap facility is not thought to be processing toxics-emitting devices, it should be testing for toxic substances.
A Pennsylvania county gets its first collection center years after the state’s electronics landfill ban was enacted, and Washington state reports lower collection weights than a year ago.
Chinese customs authorities announced a crackdown on illegal imports of scrap electronics and other materials.
Dell says it has consumed 50 million pounds of post-consumer plastics, including millions of pounds of resin from recovered electronics.
China’s recent crackdown on imports of e-scrap and other materials has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.
A smuggling crackdown in China is causing headaches for U.S. companies that recycle plastics recovered from electronics.
The world’s two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier. Continue Reading
Updates to the R2 standard continue to be developed, and a large e-scrap processing facility is under construction in South Australia.
Several years of lagging recovered material totals have led leaders of Oregon’s e-scrap program to slash weight targets for manufacturers beginning next year.