Managing e-scrap is a growing challenge and opportunity in Asia. | weedezign/Shutterstock
A business acquisition will bring British technology for extracting valuable e-scrap metals to the Asian market.
Managing e-scrap is a growing challenge and opportunity in Asia. | weedezign/Shutterstock
A business acquisition will bring British technology for extracting valuable e-scrap metals to the Asian market.
A number of e-scrap-related items were addressed in Dell’s 2019 sustainability report. | Courtesy of Dell
A global OEM says it has achieved its 2020 electronics recycling and recycled feedstock goals. The company also adopted e-scrap tracking as a permanent part of its recycling vendor auditing program.
A major OEM, a reverse logistics firm and a hard drive manufacturer are recovering rare earth magnets from end-of-life hard drives and shipping the metals for new hard drive production.
An e-scrap processor is installing a robotic sorting cell to take apart hard drives and recover each component of the device.
For two years, media outlets around the globe have covered China’s National Sword recyclables import restrictions. Now, China is threatening to wield its trade sword for a different purpose: cutting off rare earth exports to the U.S.
Projects exploring strategies to recover key materials from end-of-life electronics have received funding from the REMADE Institute.
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Metech Recycling, which operates five U.S. sites and encountered CRT storage issues recently, has been acquired by a group of investors associated with First America Metal Corp.
With an eye toward demonstrating the variety and amount of metals available from e-scrap, geologists at an English university used a household blender to take a look inside a mobile device.
A North Carolina startup is working to scale up its ability to generate investment-grade gold from e-scrap components.
Metals company Boliden recovered copper and precious metals from 95,000 short tons of printed circuit boards in 2018, up 12 percent year over year, according to an annual report.