A session at the ISRI Convention in Nashville, Tenn. featured (from left) moderator Jacqueline Lotzkar, Zhang Lin and Robin Cai. | Dan Leif/E-Scrap News
Last week’s Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Convention put a focus on two issues critical to the global side of the sector: the state of recycling in China and efforts to enhance shipping protocols. Continue Reading
A view of Mitsubishi Materials’ Naoshima Smelter and Refinery on Naoshima Island in Japan. | Courtesy of Mitsubishi Materials
Metals producer Mitsubishi Materials purchased a stake in a startup working to build a smelter in Indiana. Meanwhile, the company unveiled plans to substantially increase its e-scrap recycling capacity in Japan. Continue Reading
The president of eGreen IT Solutions, Karin Harris, argues that her company should have been alerted after BAN determined it sent a printer to an unapproved immediate downstream processor. | KG Design/Shutterstock
Arizona-based eGreen IT Solutions was stripped of its e-Stewards certification after GPS trackers showed overseas printer shipments. The company says it did not “knowingly” break rules. Continue Reading
Hong Kong courts convicted seven importers of illegally bringing in e-scrap from several countries. The U.S. was on the list of exporting countries.
Operators of Hong Kong’s massive new electronics and appliance recycling plant have released video footage and photos showing the facility’s scale and technology.
E-scrap collectors in Ghana check collected phones. | Courtesy of Closing the Loop
Mobile phone buyers in Japan will help finance African e-scrap collection and recycling, under a new partnership between FCNT, Dutch company Closing the Loop and Japanese trading giant ITOCHU.
A U.K. telecom works to provide needy people with used phones, and Indian authorities intercept thousands of illegally imported used copy machines.
A bill limiting exports of scrap electronics has been reintroduced in Congress, after it failed to advance in 2016.
Morgan Stanley noted that Korea Zinc bought the remaining 24.5% of Igneo Holdings for $110 million. On July 11, Korea Zinc paid $332 million for a majority stake. | REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock
Korea Zinc now owns 100% of Igneo Holdings after purchasing a majority stake in July.
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Samsung operates an e-scrap collection system in 50 countries. | JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock
Samsung’s environmental strategy includes a focus on circularity, using recycled materials and collecting more e-scrap.