A state program collects less weight than it did a year ago, and more than a dozen mobile phones are now listed as EPEAT silver or gold. Growing interest: The number of mobile phones registered with the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) has doubled since the category launched over the summer.

[caption id="attachment_6821" align="alignright" width="200"] Kyle Wiens of iFixit speaks at E-Scrap 2017.[/caption] Repair is a growing portion of the e-scrap field, and experts predict it will continue to increase as companies learn the revenue that can be realized by reusing rather than shredding certain good-quality components. Advocates also point to the ro

[caption id="attachment_2292" align="alignright" width="181"] Jim Puckett[/caption] In his Sept.

Former employees of E-Waste Systems have yet to be paid over $240,000 in court-ordered compensation. Meanwhile, the U.S.

E-Scrap News readers in September were overwhelmingly drawn to coverage of a lawsuit targeting Closed Loop Refining and Recovery and two of its CRT material suppliers. The list below shows our top stories published in September in terms of unique page views. 1 | Federal

A modular phone maker receives significant new capital, and an investment manager advises shareholders to push companies away from exporting e-scrap. Big backing: Fairphone, a European manufacturer of modular mobile devices, has received $7.7 million in new investment.

[caption id="attachment_6761" align="alignright" width="300"] Joe Pickard speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference.[/caption] Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been volatile of late.

A second e-scrap company has been released from an Arizona CRT abandonment lawsuit targeting upstream suppliers of the material. The lawsuit was filed earlier this year by an Arizona landlord and stems from CRT processor Dow Management

Future funding levels for the U.S. EPA are one step closer to certainty after lawmakers in the U.S.