College students in Manitoba, Canada won a cash prize last week for coming up with an innovative way to reduce volumes of electronic waste. Continue Reading
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College students in Manitoba, Canada won a cash prize last week for coming up with an innovative way to reduce volumes of electronic waste. Continue Reading
E-scrap generation grew 63 percent in east and Southeast Asian countries in five years, a comprehensive study has found. Some nations are ill-equipped to handle that increase. Continue Reading
LED lights could offer a growing source of valuable metals, and current spending offers a look at the products that could dominate the waste stream in the future. Continue Reading
An Arizona for-profit business shares electronics disassembly tips with a local nonprofit group, and a Minnesota county boosts fees it charges individuals who drop off display devices. Continue Reading
The federal government has dramatically lowered permissible exposure limits for beryllium, a metal used in some electronics.
Citadel Information Management of Westmont, Ill.; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Reclamere of Tyrone, Pa. has renewed its NAID certification for hard drive sanitization as well as for physical destruction of hard drives.
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The federal government will invest up to $70 million in a new research institute focused on reducing recycling costs and boosting recycled content in manufacturing. E-scrap is one focus of the initiative.
Apple’s earbuds get a zero on the repairability scale, and scrap writer Adam Minter is planning another book.
Another sentence has been handed out in the U.K.’s largest-ever bust of illegal e-scrap exports.
Penalties have been handed down in the case involving the largest criminal network ever uncovered by the U.K. Environment Agency.
A total of 220,000 GBP ($354,266) in fines have been levied on eight individuals and three companies in connection with an electronic waste trafficking scam. The individuals and companies in question illegally exported 496 tons of scrap televisions, refrigerators, computers and other electronics, to Ghana, Nigeria and Pakistan, all while telling customers the items were being refurbished or recycled responsibly. Separate convictions for five individuals and three companies were handed down in connection with the allegations in November, 2011. Additionally, two defendants are awaiting sentencing and a third is still at large.
“This has been a long and complex investigation to bring to book criminals who have flouted the law, risking people’s health in developing countries and undercutting legitimate recycling businesses in the U.K.,” said Jeff Warburton, an investigator working on the case. “Working in partnership with the authorities in Nigeria and Belgium, we have successfully stopped these illegal exporters. But we won’t stop there – we will continue to track down environmental criminals.”
The penalties are the result of a three-year investigation by the Environment Agency and a legal process that has been ongoing since October 2010.