College students in Manitoba, Canada won a cash prize last week for coming up with an innovative way to reduce volumes of electronic waste. Continue Reading
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E-scrap generation grew 63 percent in east and Southeast Asian countries in five years, a comprehensive study has found. Some nations are ill-equipped to handle that increase. Continue Reading
LED lights could offer a growing source of valuable metals, and current spending offers a look at the products that could dominate the waste stream in the future. Continue Reading
An Arizona for-profit business shares electronics disassembly tips with a local nonprofit group, and a Minnesota county boosts fees it charges individuals who drop off display devices. Continue Reading
The federal government has dramatically lowered permissible exposure limits for beryllium, a metal used in some electronics.
Citadel Information Management of Westmont, Ill.; Shred Northwest of Gresham, Ore.; and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Reclamere of Tyrone, Pa. has renewed its NAID certification for hard drive sanitization as well as for physical destruction of hard drives.
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The federal government will invest up to $70 million in a new research institute focused on reducing recycling costs and boosting recycled content in manufacturing. E-scrap is one focus of the initiative.
Apple’s earbuds get a zero on the repairability scale, and scrap writer Adam Minter is planning another book.
Another sentence has been handed out in the U.K.’s largest-ever bust of illegal e-scrap exports.