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E-scrap sector continues solar processing push

Published: May 22, 2025
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Size-reduced solar panels at Com2 Recycling Solutions’ Illinois facility. The company is using the glass to offset declining CRT volumes. | Photo courtesy Com2

Electronics processors are increasingly adding solar panel recycling capacity, in some cases processing the panels similarly to declining streams like CRT glass and in other cases rolling out entirely new technologies, companies said in recent interviews. Continue Reading

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Right to repair in WA and battery EPR in Nebraska

Published: May 22, 2025
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Electronics related bills both passed and died this month across the U.S. as legislative sessions wind down. | Vietnam Stock Photos/Shutterstock

Governors in Washington and Nebraska signed e-scrap bills into law recently, giving Washingtonians the right to repair their consumer electronics and Nebraskans an extended producer responsibility program for batteries.  Continue Reading

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Right-to-repair initiative in military gains momentum

Published: May 22, 2025
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An April 30 Defense memo echoes recent congressional efforts to allow the military to repair its own equipment, which helps reduce costs. | Bumble Dee/Shutterstock

As part of a broader initiative to increase efficiency, the U.S. secretary of defense has called for the Army to include the right to repair products in its procurement contracts, adding support to previous congressional efforts.  Continue Reading

Federal e-scrap export restriction bill introduced again

Published: May 22, 2025
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The Secure E-waste Export and Recycling Act has been introduced at least six times since 2015, as well as included in other bills, but has not yet passed. | MOLPIX/Shutterstock

A federal bill that would restrict U.S. exports of e-scrap has re-emerged, this time as HB 2998. Continue Reading

Battery danger and solutions take center stage at ReMA

Published: May 15, 2025
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Eric Frederickson, vice president of operations at Call2Recycle, presented a battery burn demonstration alongside the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. | Colin Staub/E-Scrap News

After a year that recorded a notable increase in e-scrap facility battery fires, the growing hazard and ways of mitigating it received ample attention at the Recycled Materials Association’s annual conference in San Diego this week.

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Battery EPR passes in Colorado

Published: May 15, 2025
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SB 163, which would set up an extended producer responsibility program for batteries in Colorado, passed both chambers and is now on the governor’s desk. | Chepko-Danil-Vitalevich/Shutterstock

Colorado is adding extended producer responsibility for another material stream to its state laws, this time for batteries. 

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Suppliers targeted for Iowa CRT stockpile cleanup costs

Published: May 15, 2025
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Gaylord boxes of cathode ray tube glass stockpiled wall to wall in a former Recycletronics site in Akron, Iowa, which was cleaned up in 2022 under the U.S. EPA’s purview. | Photo Courtesy U.S. EPA

Two e-scrap collectors that allegedly sent cathode ray tube glass to failed Midwest processor Recycletronics recently received demand letters from the U.S. EPA seeking compensation for more than $1.3 million in cleanup costs from Superfund remediation activities in 2022.

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iFixit launches 2-week circuit board training course

Published: May 15, 2025
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The intensive 12-day course will train professionals in microsoldering and board repair, to help extend device life and ease tariff-inflated electronics costs. | nikkytok/Shutterstock

Although the emphasis on device repairability has risen in recent years, many devices are discarded because of a circuit board failure when they are quite fixable, said Kyle Wiens, CEO of repair firm iFixit.

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