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.
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.
Updates to the R2 standard continue to be developed, and a large e-scrap processing facility is under construction in South Australia.
A three-year-old e-scrap firm in Wisconsin says it is opening its newest plant elsewhere because permit requirements at home have held up its plans for a CRT processing operation. But Wisconsin officials say they never actually halted construction and that the regulatory questions they raised are bound to follow the company regardless of its location.
A New Jersey lawmaker may introduce legislation boosting the government’s role in e-scrap recycling, a move electronics manufacturers would likely fight.
A bill axing North Carolina’s electronics recycling law has hit a stumbling block.