The 11th annual E-Scrap Conference — held this week in Orlando, Florida — concluded with a debate on the pros and cons of potential national legislation on electronics recycling.
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The 11th annual E-Scrap Conference — held this week in Orlando, Florida — concluded with a debate on the pros and cons of potential national legislation on electronics recycling.
The Coalition for American Electronics Recycling (CAER) recently announced that Arrow Value Recovery officially joined the group in its effort to pass the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (RERA).
E-Scrap News readers were drawn last month to a variety of reports on CRT glass, including an opinion piece arguing for landfilling of the material and a feature from our print edition.
A tech startup is developing a new product to verify trustworthiness among traders of electronic scrap and other recyclable materials.
Recently unveiled robotics technology aims to boost throughputs and reduce environmental and health risks from LCD flat-panel display recycling.
Apple picks a fight with backers of device-repair legislation, and National Geographic digs into the recovery of rare earth metals.
A county in West Virginia could legally allow the landfilling of electronics but is choosing not to, and an investment expert predicts continued low prices for metals commodities.
Municipal leaders in Casper, Wyo. have reversed course and decided to renew their electronics recycling program, after hearing from angry constituents opposed to landfilling them.
PerkinElmer used interconnected pieces of equipment to burn e-scrap and study the gases that were emitted.
It’s well understood that torching scrap electronics – either through crude processing or accidental warehouse fires – releases harmful toxics. But testing supported by the U.S. EPA has now helped identify exactly which substances are emitted, and it found some previously undetected by researchers.
E-scrap company FCM will be recycling plastics from scrap electronics at a site in Cornwall, Ontario.