A nonprofit e-scrap recycling firm is shutting down at the end of the month due to low commodity prices and lack of business.
Lacey Evans was a staff writer at Resource Recycling, Inc. until January 2017.A nonprofit e-scrap recycling firm is shutting down at the end of the month due to low commodity prices and lack of business.
Over the summer, the state of New York announced it would hand out $3 million in grants to help local governments recycle electronics. Nearly $2 million of that money is still available.
Outerwall, the parent of electronics trade-in company ecoATM, is merging with a private equity firm and will no longer be a publicly traded company.
Seattle-based Total Reclaim says it will appeal a penalty imposed by the Washington Department of Ecology for improper shipments of material.
The state of New Jersey is working to reform its e-scrap law, and lawmakers plan to have a bill to send to the governor by next month.
California officials are inviting industry players to participate in a survey regarding possible changes to the state’s e-scrap recycling program.
Electronics manufacturers are launching an e-scrap recycling pilot program in Nebraska, an effort to explore sustainable systems that aren’t driven by state law.
Washington’s e-scrap collection numbers are down again. In the first six months of 2016, the state program took in less than 90 percent of the weight collected during the same period a year ago.
Oregonians are generating more waste and recycling less of it, according to a state report, and that includes electronics.
Starting next month, $3 million worth of grants will be available to local governments in New York that are paying to recycle electronics. The money, from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund, is supposed to help municipalities cover shortfalls in the program.