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Published: April 24, 2025
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Certification Scorecard: April 24, 2025

Published: April 24, 2025
Updated: April 24, 2025
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Published: April 16, 2025
Updated: April 16, 2025
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The latest e-scrap industry news

Suppliers targeted for Iowa CRT stockpile cleanup costs
Two e-scrap collectors that allegedly sent cathode ray tube glass to failed Midwest processor Recycletronics recently received demand letters from the U.S. EPA seeking compensation for more than $1.3 million in cleanup costs from Superfund remediation activities in 2022.
Battery danger and solutions take center stage at ReMA
After a year that recorded a notable increase in e-scrap facility battery fires, the growing hazard and ways of mitigating it received ample attention at the Recycled Materials Association’s annual conference in San Diego this week.
iFixit launches 2-week circuit board training course
Although the emphasis on device repairability has risen in recent years, many devices are discarded because of a circuit board failure when they are quite fixable, said Kyle Wiens, CEO of repair firm iFixit.
Battery EPR passes in Colorado
Colorado is adding extended producer responsibility for another material stream to its state laws, this time for batteries.
Oregon shares E-Cycles modernization timeline
Ahead of the start of Oregon’s updated e-scrap recycling program in 2026, the state Department of Environmental Quality published a timeline of important dates.
Experts focus on safety after ‘disconcerting’ rise in deaths
As recycling companies seek to improve workplace safety amid an industry-wide increase in on-the-job fatalities, experts at a recent industry summit advised managers to focus their attention on — and for top executives, even to attend — the regular pre-shift safety meetings.
Hawai’i expands e-scrap program
Hawai’i added a host of new electronic devices and peripherals to its existing e-scrap law this year, also giving manufacturers more time to reach a 70% recycling and reuse target.