Marissa Heffernan started working for Resource Recycling in January 2022 after spending several years as a reporter at a daily newspaper in Southwest Washington. After developing a special focus on recycling policy, they are also the editor of the monthly newsletter Policy Now. Heffernan can be contacted at [email protected].
The state of California and Walmart reached a multimillion-dollar settlement over the alleged improper disposal of e-scrap and hazardous material into municipal landfills. | Sundry Photography/Shutterstock
Several years after the State of California first sued Walmart over the alleged unlawful disposal of e-scrap, hazardous and medical waste to municipal landfills, a multimillion-dollar settlement is before the judge. Continue Reading
Sage Sustainable Electronics acquired Pennsylvania-based Relectro, a national provider of electronics repair, refurbishment and logistics services that services more than 25,000 assets per year. | Elnur/Shutterstock
Sage Sustainable Electronics, financed by Closed Loop Partners, has acquired an electronics repair and refurbishment company, aiming to gain a stronger foothold in the reuse world. Continue Reading
Rob Lawson-Shanks, CEO and co-founder of Molg spoke about battery legislation at the 2024 E-Scrap Conference, joined by Leo Raudys, president and CEO of Call2Recycle; Jeff Farano, manager of compliance and governmental relations for SA Recycling; and Jeff Gloyd, founder of Gloyd Recycling Solutions. | Big Wave Productions/Resource Recycling
Legislative action on batteries is speeding up, but some of those laws are missing their marks and creating a regulatory environment that is difficult to recycle in, panelists said at the recent E-Scrap Conference in Orlando. Continue Reading
Rebound members can now trade more recycled materials on the platform, including plastics, metal, glass, OCC and e-scrap. | New Africa/Shutterstock
After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading
The new Carbon Loop Report from SK Tes is built to give OEMs granular details about the emissions avoided – and created – during the ITAD process. | Lorez/Shutterstock
Gone are the days where the amount of e-scrap processed was reported to OEMs in terms of weight in elephants or the number of times it could circle the globe. For SK Tes, the future is third-party verified reporting that factors in energy use, recycling rates and disposition channels to produce Scope 3 avoided emissions data. Continue Reading
In 2023, of the more than 275,000 assets DMD Systems Recovery processed, slightly more than 100,000 were reused. | Maximumm/Shutterstock
Arizona-based ITAD company DMD Systems Recovery shared recycling and reuse data in its 2023 impact report, and updated its carbon-neutral goals.
Carbon insets, tradable certificates that can be sold back to companies sending e-scrap for processing, could provide up to $100 of additional revenue per ton for ITAD and e-scrap companies. | Mulad Images/Shutterstock
ITADs will soon be able to claim an extra $11 to $100 worth of revenue per ton of e-scrap by selling carbon insets, global advisory firm Bloom ESG predicted in its latest white paper. Continue Reading
Aurubis’ latest facility has the capacity to process over 180,000 tons of complex recycling materials annually, including circuit boards and copper cables. | Courtesy of Arubis
German company Aurubis has brought its multi-metal recycling facility in Georgia online after two years of work. Continue Reading
A Sept. 14 fire forced Oregon reuse and recycling nonprofit Free Geek to shut its doors, but community support helped the organization get back up and running. | Courtesy of Free Geek
After a devastating fire at Portland, Oregon-based Free Geek in mid-September, a community outpouring of support has the nonprofit close to its fundraising goal for recovery. Continue Reading
SB 1215, which was enacted in 2022, expands California’s decades-old e-scrap recycling program to include battery-embedded products. | Jittawit21/Shutterstock
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is working through rulemaking on SB 1215, which adds items with embedded batteries to the state’s existing e-scrap recycling program. Continue Reading