A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
Even if an e-scrap facility is not thought to be processing toxics-emitting devices, it should be testing for toxic substances.
Dell says it has consumed 50 million pounds of post-consumer plastics, including millions of pounds of resin from recovered electronics.
The world’s two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier. Continue Reading
A smuggling crackdown in China is causing headaches for U.S. companies that recycle plastics recovered from electronics.
China’s recent crackdown on imports of e-scrap and other materials has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.
Chinese customs authorities announced a crackdown on illegal imports of scrap electronics and other materials.
A legislative fix to revamp Pennsylvania’s struggling electronics recycling program isn’t going to cut it, according to a group of five recycling stakeholders in the state.
A lawsuit from TV manufacturer Vizio that questioned the constitutionality of Connecticut’s electronics recycling law and program has been dismissed in its entirety.
Regulators in California have decided to increase payments to companies participating in the state’s electronics recycling program.