In This Issue:

1 | StEP offers new insight on global regulatory environment

A trio of reports covering the international flow of electronic scrap have been released by the United Nations University's Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) initiative, and specifically address the changing regulatory landscape in China and Africa.

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2 | Investment, M&A activity heats up in electronics recycling

The rapid growth in electronics recycling is generating new interest from outside investors, as well as new merger and acquisition activity, according to reports from the recent Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Convention in Orlando, Florida.

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3 | Arrow, Lenovo announce new partnership

Arrow Electronics, Inc. has been named the preferred partner in a new asset retirement service offered by Lenovo.

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4 | E-scrap featured in Recycling Innovators Forum

A new technology proposal from TeTechS, Inc. to sort and characterize plastics from electronic products and automotive scrap is one of the finalists in the upcoming Recycling Innovators Forum.

The basis of the TeTechS, Inc.'s submission to the competition is a patent-pending technology which converts a laser beam into a terahertz waveform and uses terahertz waves to sort light and dark colored plastics. Terahertz is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared. This innovation will create the ability for industry to characterize waste plastics and specifically black plastics coming from e-scrap and ASR. With this ability, effective separation and recovery of the black polymers from these waste streams can be accomplished in an energy efficient method. Recovering and re-using these black polymers will generate sustainable solutions for the use of plastics in our global community.

TeTechS, and the other eight finalists, will present their proposals to a panel of judges at the Recycling Innovators Forum on August 26 at the Louisville Convention Center, the afternoon before the fourth annual Resource Recycling Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The judges, recognized leaders in recycling and market development, will choose three top finalists who will receive honorariums of $20,000 (first place), $5,000 (second place) and $2,000 (third place). Anyone can attend the Recycling Innovators Forum to learn more about the next big idea in recycling.

For more information, visit recyclinginnovators.com or click on the banner below.

5 | Certification scorecard

With the roster of companies attaining third-party certifications or audits continuing to grow, E-Scrap News has compiled a round-up of the firms announcing certification this past week.

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6 | NewsBits

Rare earth recovery technolgoy and Earth Day news in this week's NewsBits.

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7 | Upcoming conferences & webinars

Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars!

8 | Jobs Available & Sought

Director of Business Development, Integrated Communications and Technologies (Malden, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Account Executive, Integrated Communications and Technologies (Malden, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Vice President of Sales and Marketing, IMS Electronics Recycling (National).
Details are available online.

Business Development Supervisor, IMS Electronics Recycling (Vancouver, Washington).
Details are available online.

Business Development Representative, IMS Electronics Recycling (Decatur, Georgia).
Details are available online.

Account Executive, Sims Recycling Solutions (Rancho Dominguez, California & West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

Sales Representative, Spruce IT Asset Recovery (Multiple Locations).
Details are available here.

Business Development Associate, Lifespan Technology Recycling, Inc. (Multiple Locations).
Details are available here.

Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.

If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, send an email to newsletter editor Henry Leineweber at [email protected].