China’s new normal
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Trade & Tariffs
In My Opinion: Setting the record straight on BAN funding and motivation
Last year, in the pages of E-Scrap News, the Basel Action Network (BAN) called out a growing trend of waste...
How tracking tools could boost e-scrap accountability
Can technology be used to better track flows of end-of-life electronics? Industry and government officials discussed that idea this week...
Ocean freight lines push for container shipping rate boost
Container shipping lines serving the U.S.-to-Asia market are confronting new market dynamics. The strong U.S. dollar and tepid Asian economies...
South Carolina startup to recycle difficult-to-recover plastics
An in-development plastics recycling company will take in difficult-to-recover plastics, including PP from sharps, mixed rigid bales and PET fines....
China puts squeeze on informal plastics recycling
Revamped regulations in China require plastics recycling operations to meet minimum processing benchmarks and a variety of other standards. As...
China’s Guiyu shifts away from crude processing
A town in southern China that's known as one of the world's most notorious destinations for e-scrap is undergoing a...
ISRI rep says public is fed skewed view of e-scrap exporting
Most e-scrap leaving U.S. shores is reused in developing countries, not dumped, an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries official said....
China again cracks down on scrap plastic imports
A global recycling trade group says China has rekindled its scrutiny of imported plastics. According to a report from the...
China again cracks down on scrap plastic imports
A global recycling trade group says China has rekindled its scrutiny of imported plastics. According to a report from the...
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