A computer tower with a tracking device provided by the Green Tracking Service (device at lower right).
A U.S. company has begun providing an e-scrap tracking service so processors and OEMs can see where their downstream vendors are sending devices. One processor is already regularly using the service.
The merging of the National Association for Information Destruction with a records management group will mean combined events and cost savings, but it isn’t expected to change certification requirements for electronics recycling companies.
Electronics repair advocates are speaking in defense of a refurb executive sentenced to prison for illegally copying Microsoft software.
Puneet Shrivastava of Dell (left) accepts the Design for Recycling Award from ISRI Chair Mark Lewon.
Dell last week became the first two-time winner of an award that honors manufacturers that keep recyclability in mind when designing products.
PCs and display devices will have to meet new standards to be listed on a registry of environmentally friendly electronics.
The group behind the R2 standard released a broad plan for ensuring certified facilities better conform to the electronics recycling standard. Among the considerations is the use of GPS trackers to keep tabs on material movement.
Testimony from a data security industry group appears to have spurred government interest in strengthening regulations preventing data breaches.
John Lingelbach will be leaving his post at the helm of Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) and the R2 certification program later this year.
European coalitions representing electronics manufacturers have launched an internet-based information service designed to help processors better recycle devices.
Last year, in the pages of E-Scrap News, the Basel Action Network (BAN) called out a growing trend of waste trade denial. Josh Lepawsky, co-author of a study we critiqued for diminishing the significance of e-waste export from developed to developing countries, responded in the December 2015 E-Scrap News magazine with a critique of his own.