Researchers are gathering information about the global generation and flow of e-scrap, and they plan to publish their findings in November.
Researchers are gathering information about the global generation and flow of e-scrap, and they plan to publish their findings in November.
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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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner will soon have to decide whether to sign off on two bills that would substantially transform the state’s e-scrap program.
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.
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.