California legislation targeting how plastic packaging is labeled also affects recycling labels for consumer electronics, according to industry groups.
California legislation targeting how plastic packaging is labeled also affects recycling labels for consumer electronics, according to industry groups.
California officials say they will have enough money to continue running the state’s e-scrap recycling program without hiking fees.
A high-profile recycling commission in California has published its endorsement of right-to-repair policies.
E-scrap processors in California could get paid by the state to recycle additional types of electronic devices, depending on the outcome of toxicity testing by officials.
Retailers in recent months have agreed to pay over $8 million to settle accusations they illegally landfilled electronics and other hazardous waste in California. In one case, trashed e-scrap was suspected to have ignited two fires.
Citing difficult market conditions and rising costs for the industry, California officials will greatly increase the rates they pay e-scrap firms to collect and recycle electronics.
This article has been corrected.
Over the past three years, fewer of California’s CRTs are going directly to hazardous waste landfills and more are flowing through intermediate glass processors, state data shows. But that may not mean more glass is ultimately being recycled.
This story has been updated and corrected.
The owner of a defunct Orange County, Calif. company must pay more than $150,000 in restitution after investigators found he defrauded the state’s electronics recycling program.
California officials are considering regulating lithium-ion battery labels, but an e-scrap processor says they’re missing a bigger issue: Battery-containing electronics are increasingly expensive to process.
Legislation making lithium-ion battery producers responsible for collecting and recycling the products they sell is advancing in California.