Tax reform legislation moving through Congress could help electronics recycling companies deduct equipment expenditures.
Tax reform bills approved by the U.S. House and Senate include sweeping cuts to business taxes, and recycling industry associations are applauding the business-friendly measures.
Nearly 720 facilities worldwide are now certified to R2. As the electronics recycling standard approaches its 10-year birthday, E-Scrap News takes a look at the factors that have shaped the standard’s growth of late.
A Canadian ITAD firm has brought the concept of carbon credits into the refurbishment realm as a way of offsetting the carbon impact associated with purchasing new IT equipment.
The parent of Regency Technologies is consolidating two northern Ohio facilities into a massive new location that’s under construction near Cleveland.
Auditors have started conducting surprise visits of R2-certified facilities outside North America to see whether they’re following R2 standards. Continue Reading
New York City is expanding a program in which households can make a reservation to have end-of-life devices picked up by city crews.
A study takes a wide-ranging look at the health and environmental impacts of improperly managed scrap electronics, and it suggests ways the whole value chain can work to solve the problems.
A group of Taiwanese developers has unveiled a recycling system to recover glass, indium and liquid crystal from LCD screens.
Nearly 300 IT product refurbishing experts convened in New Orleans this week to consider industry trends and to address barriers to growth. The event was the 14th annual Electronics Reuse Conference, now operated by the consulting firm E-Reuse Services.
Lawmakers hear testimony from Ned Eldridge of eLoop (left), Michele Nestor of Nestor Resources and Bob Bylone of the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center.
Manufacturers say proposed changes to Pennsylvania’s e-scrap program would make it the worst in the country from an OEM perspective. Proponents, however, note the bill fixes dire problems that have led to rampant CRT dumping statewide.