Tom Marieb of Apple discusses the company’s shifts on repairability during a session at the Electronics Sustainability Summit. | Courtesy of Electronics Sustainability Summit
About 600 electronics recycling, repair and manufacturing stakeholders convened in Austin, Texas, for the first annual Electronics Sustainability Summit hosted by electronics certification organization SERI. Continue Reading
Rob Lawson-Shanks, CEO and co-founder of Molg spoke about battery legislation at the 2024 E-Scrap Conference, joined by Leo Raudys, president and CEO of Call2Recycle; Jeff Farano, manager of compliance and governmental relations for SA Recycling; and Jeff Gloyd, founder of Gloyd Recycling Solutions. | Big Wave Productions/Resource Recycling
Legislative action on batteries is speeding up, but some of those laws are missing their marks and creating a regulatory environment that is difficult to recycle in, panelists said at the recent E-Scrap Conference in Orlando. Continue Reading
Rebound members can now trade more recycled materials on the platform, including plastics, metal, glass, OCC and e-scrap. | New Africa/Shutterstock
After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. Continue Reading
The Electronics Sustainability Summit, held in Austin, Texas, from Oct. 22-24, featured a day focused on mobile device repair. | Colin Staub / Resource Recycling, Inc.
Repair shops and advocates convened during the first day of the Electronics Sustainability Summit this week to share tips on improving repair businesses, the evolution of OEM and repair community relationships and the repair legislative landscape. Continue Reading
The new Carbon Loop Report from SK Tes is built to give OEMs granular details about the emissions avoided – and created – during the ITAD process. | Lorez/Shutterstock
Gone are the days where the amount of e-scrap processed was reported to OEMs in terms of weight in elephants or the number of times it could circle the globe. For SK Tes, the future is third-party verified reporting that factors in energy use, recycling rates and disposition channels to produce Scope 3 avoided emissions data. Continue Reading
Wisconsin-based URT was cited for employees being exposed to heavy metals during CRT dismantling, and the company president emphasized that the company has been working with OSHA for a year on the issues. | Drazah/Shutterstock
Federal regulators have fined URT more than $200,000 for multiple instances of workers exposed to elevated lead and cadmium levels during cathode ray tube device dismantling at the company’s Wisconsin location. Continue Reading