A container ship travels under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay in California. | Jared Paben/E-Scrap News
Exporting end-of-life devices from California has long been a heavily regulated process. This year, lawmakers added another requirement that exporters first prove in-state recycling options were unavailable. Continue Reading
The Basel Action Network (BAN) provides a guide to help e-scrap processors stay in compliance with export law. | Basel Action Network (BAN)
Exports watchdog Basel Action Network is barking. The group says U.S. e-scrap companies are illegally exporting e-plastics to Malaysia, and it has issued a warning. Continue Reading
Under the proposed regulations, Canadian companies seeking to export non-hazardous e-scrap have to obtain approval from the country that will receive the shipment. | Butekov Aleksei/Shutterstock
One of Canada’s largest electronics recycling companies, eCycle Solutions, says Canadian leaders’ plan to restrict e-scrap exports will complicate – but certainly not debilitate – shipments of circuit boards to smelters.
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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
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.
A bill limiting exports of scrap electronics has been reintroduced in Congress, after it failed to advance in 2016.
Technologies Displays Mexicana (TDM) is the latest to shut down its CRT operations, following companies such as Camacho Recycling and Nulife Glass. | Google streetview
TDM, a Mexican company that has recycled millions of pounds of CRTs from the U.S., closed its CRT recycling business this year.
A laptop that WT World Trading claims Tech-Resale shipped to it in the United Arab Emirates. | Courtesy of WT World Trading
The e-Stewards certification program has blacklisted Tech-Resale for at least two years, concluding that the electronics reseller violated several of the standard’s requirements.
