California state legislators are considering a battery stewardship bill. | Steve Heap/Shutterstock
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A California bill would create an extended producer responsibility program for batteries and battery-embedded products.
California state legislators are considering a battery stewardship bill. | Steve Heap/Shutterstock
This story has been corrected.
A California bill would create an extended producer responsibility program for batteries and battery-embedded products.
Researchers suggest implementing ultimate producer responsibility policy would improve labor conditions for the thousands of people working in the informal waste management sector. | DimiSotirov/Shutterstock
More than two dozen researchers and e-scrap experts from nine countries are calling for a global extended producer responsibility system that ensures European producers take care of e-scrap after it’s exported.
Since Wisconsin’s electronics recycling law took effect in 2010, the DNR has conducted six statewide household recycling surveys. | Courtesy of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Fewer devices were sitting unused in Wisconsin homes in 2021 than three years prior, a report found.
Oregon state e-scrap program leaders shared their 2023 collection targets during a recent webinar. | JPL Designs/Shutterstock
E-scrap collections have trended sharply downward for the past several years, but there is reason to believe the weight entering Oregon’s program may slightly increase next year, state officials explained.
Wisconsin saw an increase in the number of registered permanent collection sites, one-day events and temporary collection sites from 477 during program year 11 to 545 during program year 12. | Susan Montgomery/Shutterstock
After four years of consistent declines, the weight of scrap electronics collected under Wisconsin’s recycling program increased notably last year.
The executive director of the National Center for Electronics Recycling explains why Oregonians will lose several e-scrap collection sites. | akiyoko/Shutterstock
The loss of several e-scrap collection sites in Oregon is causing consternation in some communities, and now the legislature is mulling a bill meant to temporarily address the situation.
The Washington, D.C. council passed a bill that will require OEMs in the extended producer responsibility program to do business with only e-Stewards-certified processors. | DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock
Processors participating in Washington, D.C.’s electronics recycling program must carry e-Stewards certification next year. It’s a change from the previous rules, which allowed either e-Stewards or R2 to satisfy the certification requirement.
A pilot program will allow residents of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to recycle over 500 additional products. | ti1993/Shutterstock
Canada’s Northwest Territories will expand the list of items accepted in its electronics recycling program, as part of a two-year pilot project.
A bill signed into law last month makes a number of changes to Wisconsin’s 11-year-old EPR law for electronics. | Sean Pavone / Shutterstock
Under a recently signed bill, all K-12 schools in Wisconsin will be able to recycle e-scrap through the state’s extended producer responsibility program.
