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Illinois-based electronics recycling firm Intercon Solutions has become the first processor to be denied e-Stewards Certification for what the Basel Action Network says is “compelling evidence” that the company exported electronic waste to Hong Kong.
Multinational electronic components supplier Arrow Electronics has reached a three-year agreement with the Basel Action Network to certify all of Arrow’s electronics recycling and IT asset recovery operations worldwide to the e-Stewards standard.
The Basel Action Network has announced that, effective immediately, the e-Stewards standard will now include all the elements of the R2 standard.
Even though we can’t see the “cloud” in cloud computing, we can see the environmental effects, according to one blogger.
SERI says it has launched a number of initiatives in the wake of a tracking report from the Basel Action Network that found a host of recycling companies shipping devices overseas.
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.