Problems with Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program continue to grab headlines as local programs restrict or halt collections.
Problems with Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program continue to grab headlines as local programs restrict or halt collections.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city’s collection comes in Staten Island.
New York state officials will dip into an environmental fund to pay half of the e-scrap recycling expenses incurred each year by counties.
Statistics released by the U.K. government show well over 500,000 metric tons of household electronics and appliances were collected for recycling in 2015.
A bill to update the state electronics recycling framework in Minnesota is now awaiting the signature of the state’s governor.
Lawmakers in Ghana have reportedly approved legislation that will result in a national fund to provide collection and recycling services for end-of-life electronics.
An Indiana newspaper urges lawmakers to address a lack of rural collection opportunities, and costs to recycle electronics are going up for residents in one upper Midwest municipality.
One expert says changes to the extended producer responsibility system in the U.K. are beneficial, and a Middle Eastern kingdom works to teach students about e-scrap recycling.
Spain prepares to implement its electronics reuse targets, and activists in Bangladesh urge the government to address the issue of electronics disposal.
Kenya becomes the first African country to pass a law directing flows of e-scrap, and an Aussie stewardship group reaches out to the country’s business community.