E-scrap materials, including CRT glass, sit abandoned in rural Wyoming, with the site’s former owner in prison and regulatory agencies still working to determine who should handle a cleanup.
Colin Staub has been a staff writer at Resource Recycling since January 2017. Before that he worked as a reporter at the weekly newspaper in Newberg, Oregon, and has been a freelance writer at other publications in Portland. He can be contacted at [email protected]
E-scrap materials, including CRT glass, sit abandoned in rural Wyoming, with the site’s former owner in prison and regulatory agencies still working to determine who should handle a cleanup.
A two-year study has highlighted key details about e-scrap exports to Nigeria, including the different device types entering the country, methods used to ship them and countries of origin.
Customs officers in China’s port city of Xiamen seized a load of end-of-life electronics last month, claiming the material didn’t meet e-scrap import standards.
Researchers have looked at how the costs of e-scrap processing stack up against virgin mining, and their findings indicate recycling is more efficient for some key metals.
Most e-scrap managers know not to shred mobile devices that contain lithium-ion batteries. But it turns out fires are a threat even when disassembly procedures are utilized.
Budget shortfalls are a reality for state programs nationwide, and in Maryland, the strain is increasingly being felt at the county level.
India opened the door last week to imports of products that will be repaired and re-exported out the country, a move that could have significant implications for the electronics reuse sector.
An appeals court has ruled against Vizio in a case over how Connecticut’s state program calculates the recycling fee it charges manufacturers.
Research partially funded by a prominent IT asset disposition company led to the development of a non-toxic method for recycling e-plastics.
A handful of United Nations entities have announced their collaboration to improve e-scrap management.