In Uganda, end-of-life cell phones are collected before being shipped for recycling.
Tech companies are seeing boosted demand for environmental leadership, and e-scrap management concerns continue to mark developing countries. An enterprise in Europe is working to help out on both fronts.
Shredding, sorting and processing machinery that was used by shuttered processor ECS Refining is being sold via an online auction.
A processor will expand its headquarters, bringing additional inventory storage space and consolidating its Arizona processing operations in a single location.
Workers at the Mesquite, Texas ECS Refining facility.
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The Schupan & Sons headquarters in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Schupan & Sons is upgrading its Kalamazoo, Mich. campus with an expansion of its e-scrap operations and a dedicated health care clinic for company employees.
Results of a new study suggest e-scrap workers must wipe their hands multiple times at the end of their shifts to remove toxic flame retardants.
E-scrap exports to Hong Kong will require more due diligence beginning in January, when the semi-autonomous region implements new import and recycling permit requirements.
Two men accused of stockpiling and taking steps to illegally dispose of CRT glass have pleaded guilty to federal hazardous waste violations. One of them has been sentenced to probation.
A metals company will expand capacity at a Swedish copper smelter that consumes substantial volumes of printed circuit boards.
S3 Recycling Solutions CEO Rod McDaniel (right) with S3 Chairman Darrell S. Freeman, Sr. at the company’s new location in Springfield, Tenn.
Based on the statistics, Rod McDaniel knows he was unlikely to become the CEO of a fast-growing electronics reuse and recycling company.