The director of the R2 standard explains why the volunteers who served on a committee that updated R2 deserve recognition. | ASDF_Media / Shutterstock
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The director of the R2 standard explains why the volunteers who served on a committee that updated R2 deserve recognition. | ASDF_Media / Shutterstock
Researchers pointed to targeted subsidies and higher penalties for fraud as things that could potentially solve the problem of dishonest recycling. | Gwoeii / Shutterstock
Cost is the main factor contributing to fraudulent recycling activities, researchers recently reported. They say improving the financial equation for e-scrap processors and raising the penalties for bad actors could reduce negative practices.
Readers were drawn to news of a EV battery collection collaboration between HOBI International and battery recycling company Retriev Technologies. | Sergii Chernov / Shutterstock
Readers were drawn to articles on a variety of topics last month, including an upcoming new recycling standard, electric vehicle battery recycling, a White House supply-chain report, and more.
The proposed bill covers TVs, computers, laptops, printers and a handful of additional devices. | Ronald Rampsch / Shutterstock
Legislation introduced in the Bay State establishes extended producer responsibility for end-of-life consumer electronics. In prior years, similar proposals have failed to move forward.
The executive action comes during a time of ramped-up activity in the right-to-repair realm. | Sean Pavone / Shutterstock
The White House is encouraging federal regulators to protect independent repair of consumer electronics, agricultural equipment and more, according to an executive order issued Friday.
Jim Lynch organizing discarded electronics at the TechSoup offices in San Francisco in 2016.
PlanITROI partnered with Microsoft to provide free refurbished laptops to digitally underserved students in El Paso, Texas and Memphis, Tenn. | Courtesy of PlanITROI
The nonprofit arm of ITAD firm PlanITROI partnered with Microsoft to provide hundreds of refurbished laptops to low-income students of color in Texas and Tennessee.