At the closing general session of the 2014 ISRI Convention & Exposition, presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to over 1,000 attendees about recycling and how the industry fits into the larger U.S. and global economy, but not without some controversy.
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Apple settles accusations from California that it mishandled material from recycled electronics, and a writer says design innovation may have led to the Galaxy Note 7 battery issues.
A data-erasure company says far too many used drives are not properly wiped, and a law firm pursues a class-action lawsuit against beleaguered processor Total Reclaim.
Minnesota made significant changes to its e-scrap program. However, its neighbor Wisconsin failed to pass major updates. Those are just two notes in our look at six action-packed months in state-level policy.
Japan-based Mitsubishi Materials has formed a company to begin collecting and processing large amounts of e-scrap in Europe. It plans to ship the material to its smelters and refineries in Japan.
The U.S. market for new PCs saw “strong results” for the second quarter of 2016, though international markets showed a drop.
The end has officially come for the VCR, and the upcoming iPhone may not necessarily be an improvement when it comes to durability.
A national processing company develops a collection bin for e-scrap, and researchers at the University of Houston push forward in rare-earth recovery.
India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king of Belgium helps highlight donations of refurbished computers to projects in Africa.