What’s the cure for today’s low commodity prices? Stop recycling devices you can repair and resell instead.
What’s the cure for today’s low commodity prices? Stop recycling devices you can repair and resell instead.
TVs dominate the end-of-life stream in Washington state now more than ever. They just don’t look like they used to, with fewer CRT devices and more flat-panel displays coming in the door.
Apple’s release of the iPhone 7 and the more advanced iPhone 7 Plus last September pushed consumers to let go of earlier models. Analysis from one industry firm shows how pricing for used phones has played out since then.
A fertilizer and silver producer has begun processing scrap printed circuit boards to isolate precious metals.
A trial program in Europe is exploring more efficient ways of recovering a range of raw materials from used electronics and appliances.
If melting items can help combine different materials, exposing them to ultra-low temperatures can keep them apart. That’s the idea behind a new technique for separating different materials in shredded e-scrap.
A lab operated by tech giant IBM has developed a one-step method for recycling polycarbonate electronic items into high-performance engineering plastics.
An e-scrap processor has announced plans to build a facility in Whitewater, Wisc. with the goal of transforming CRT glass to tiles.
This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.
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Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions.