Carey Hamilton, executive director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition and a board member of the National Recycling Coalition, has succeeded in her bid for a seat in the legislature.
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Carey Hamilton, executive director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition and a board member of the National Recycling Coalition, has succeeded in her bid for a seat in the legislature.
It has been six months since Call2Recycle launched the nation’s first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries in Vermont, and Carl Smith, CEO and president of Call2Recycle, is pleased with how it’s going.
Insurance fraud at an e-scrap operator, federal action to close an electronics reuse company and news on a CRT processor are among the stories that captured readers’ attention last month.
A leaching method can effectively extract precious metals from e-scrap without using toxic chemicals, the product’s creator said.
Recently, I had to go to Ikea to get some office gear. And I’m always struck by the same thing when I wend my way through the labyrinth that is that retail establishment, the just-so nature of all of their pre-fab rooms. It’s tantalizing, everything in its right place with its right purpose – a suggestion that even I can learn to live an uncluttered life.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an automated process for disassembling hard drives so their rare earth elements can be reused. That process, which aims to keep intact hard drives out of shredders, will be tested by a manufacturer in Tennessee.
Researchers funded by the U.S. government have developed an easier and cheaper way of extracting rare earth elements from magnets in electronics. Now the method will be used by a publicly traded company.
More than 1,200 people from 48 states, seven provinces and 34 countries flocked to the Big Easy for the 14th annual E-Scrap Conference. The Hyatt Regency was home to a French Quarter-themed exhibit hall plus dozens of workshops and sessions.
Companies participating in California’s e-scrap program have been frequently resorting to CRT glass disposal in 2016, and that trend is likely to continue as question marks swirl around the status of a glass-to-glass recycling operation in India.
An individual’s views toward electronics recycling tend to align closely with community attitudes toward recycling and reuse in general, a survey suggests.