A battery stewardship group in North America has launched a campaign with information on collecting and shipping batteries safely.
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A battery stewardship group in North America has launched a campaign with information on collecting and shipping batteries safely.
Researchers are gathering information about the global generation and flow of e-scrap, and they plan to publish their findings in November.
The used and refurbished phone market is predicted to grow substantially, and a Canadian province increases its “eco fee” for the first time in its history.
As New Jersey regulators implement changes to the state’s electronics recycling law, they say they have no intention of creating a statewide standard plan, according to the leader of a recycling group in the state.
A federal appeals court will allow the founder of an electronics recycling company to stay out of prison while he appeals his 15-month sentence tied to software counterfeiting.
The fate of Nulife Glass is in question, with the firm halting operations as it struggles to meet regulator demands to remove CRT glass stored in warehouses.
House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S. EPA budget are standing behind the agency’s waste minimization and recycling program, which would be defunded under the Trump administration’s fiscal plan.
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Chinese authorities say the country will prohibit some grades of recovered plastic and other materials from being imported by the end of 2017. Although the announcement doesn’t list e-scrap materials specifically, one trade group anticipates more materials will be restricted in the future.
Worldwide shipments of PCs continued a nearly three-year consistent decline during the past year, industry analysts reported this month.
A Pennsylvania newspaper calls for changes to the state’s electronics EPR law, and the Consumer Technology Association offers updated data on the shifting device stream.