Key electronics recycling leaders, especially those from Asia, gathered in China recently to discuss the realities of e-scrap management from a global perspective.
Key electronics recycling leaders, especially those from Asia, gathered in China recently to discuss the realities of e-scrap management from a global perspective.
Government agencies have started cleaning up the toxic aftermath of a fire at a Los Angeles-area metals and e-scrap recycling facility. Clean-up costs are expected to total in the millions of dollars.
It has been six months since Call2Recycle launched the nation’s first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries in Vermont, and Carl Smith, CEO and president of Call2Recycle, is pleased with how it’s going.
A leaching method can effectively extract precious metals from e-scrap without using toxic chemicals, the product’s creator said.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an automated process for disassembling hard drives so their rare earth elements can be reused. That process, which aims to keep intact hard drives out of shredders, will be tested by a manufacturer in Tennessee.
Nulife Glass succeeded in getting a CRT glass smelting furnace up and running in New York but is now fighting with Pennsylvania regulators who say it is stockpiling material. State officials assert Nulife has speculatively accumulated 17 million pounds of CRT material in four warehouses in Pennsylvania.
Private-equity company Caretta Partners now owns a majority stake in Oklahoma City-based HiTech Assets.
The weight of electronics recycled by Canadians continues to grow at a substantial pace, a report from Statistics Canada shows.
More small and difficult-to-recycle wearable electronics are entering the marketplace, presenting future challenges for those attempting to recover them.
A company employing a unique recycling approach for hard disk drive magnets has raised $25 million to build a facility in Austin, Texas.