A team of academics has taken issue with a number of key statements on e-scrap exports and generation recently made by the United Nations Environment Programme. Continue Reading
A team of academics has taken issue with a number of key statements on e-scrap exports and generation recently made by the United Nations Environment Programme. Continue Reading
A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
Even if an e-scrap facility is not thought to be processing toxics-emitting devices, it should be testing for toxic substances.
A Pennsylvania county gets its first collection center years after the state’s electronics landfill ban was enacted, and Washington state reports lower collection weights than a year ago.
The world’s two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier. Continue Reading
Chinese customs authorities announced a crackdown on illegal imports of scrap electronics and other materials.
Dell says it has consumed 50 million pounds of post-consumer plastics, including millions of pounds of resin from recovered electronics.
China’s recent crackdown on imports of e-scrap and other materials has exposed smuggling operations, led to dozens of arrests and resulted in the confiscation of more than 22,000 tons of material.
A smuggling crackdown in China is causing headaches for U.S. companies that recycle plastics recovered from electronics.