Stakeholders have come to settlements in lawsuits over an explosion caused by batteries from used electronics in North Carolina.
Stakeholders have come to settlements in lawsuits over an explosion caused by batteries from used electronics in North Carolina.
Former employees of E-Waste Systems have yet to be paid over $240,000 in court-ordered compensation. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently took action against the short-lived publicly traded company.
Repair is a growing portion of the e-scrap field, and experts predict it will continue to increase as companies learn the revenue that can be realized by reusing rather than shredding certain good-quality components.
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been volatile of late. Such uncertainty could continue as China considers limits on taking in some metal grades.
A second e-scrap company has been released from an Arizona CRT abandonment lawsuit targeting upstream suppliers of the material.
Around 1,200 electronics recovery professionals gathered last week for North America’s largest sector event. Our photo slideshow offers a taste of the networking, education and industry connection that took place over three busy days.
Bolstering domestic markets is a logical way to reduce exports, and that concept is behind a just-announced program that’s tied to an e-scrap certification.
There was some level of OEM influence in an e-scrap company’s decision to send tens of millions of pounds of CRT glass to the ill-fated Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, statements from Kuusakoski and Sony show.
Nulife Glass, a company that built its own furnace to recycle CRT glass in the U.S., has decided to close.
A European project will release a data platform providing a wealth of information on changes in the end-of-life stream. The particulars can help processors better recover commodities from scrap electronics.