European advisory firm Bloom ESG has launched the first carbon inset registry specific to the ITAD and e-scrap sectors, in partnership with Wisconsin-based Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations.

A federal lawmaker has introduced the "Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act," seeking to diminish U.S. reliance on China for critical minerals via domestic mining, recycling and finding other trade partners. 

Officials in Malaysia and Thailand seized containers with hundreds of tons of e-scrap illegally imported from the United States earlier this month after tips from the U.S. nonprofit Basel Action Network.

Cathode ray tube devices, long the major headache material for the electronics recycling industry, continue to make up less and less of the end-of-life stream, but they're nowhere near gone completely, based on state program data and interviews with e-scrap processors.

Kingston, Ontario-based battery recycling firm Cyclic Materials signed a deal with e-bike and e-scooter company Lime to recover rare earth metals from end-of-life motors. Dallas, Texas-headquartered battery processor Ecobat

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: Belmont Asset Management DBA Full Circle Electronics of Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico; GSM Club of Bronx, New York; Procurri Canada of Mississauga, Canada; Pulse Supply Chain Solutions of Dallas, Texas; Recycle Emirates FZC of

Governors in Washington and Nebraska signed e-scrap bills into law recently, giving Washingtonians the right to repair their consumer electronics and Nebraskans an extended producer responsibility program for batteries. 

As part of a broader initiative to increase efficiency, the U.S. secretary of defense has called for the Army to include the right to repair products in its procurement contracts, adding support to previous congressional efforts. 

A federal bill that would restrict U.S. exports of e-scrap has re-emerged, this time as HB 2998.

Electronics processors are increasingly adding solar panel recycling capacity, in some cases processing them similarly to declining streams like CRT glass and in other cases rolling out entirely new technologies, companies said in recent interviews.