California's hike in the fee to fund electronics recycling is explained, and a repair advocacy group accuses OEMs of deflecting pressure to improve repairability.
Fee breakdown: California's advanced disposal fee (ADF), which is levied at the point of sale to fund end-of-life management, was raised recently by about $2 per device.
The former leaders of CRT outlet Closed Loop Refining and Recovery have been directed by a court to pay more than $18 million for breaking the lease at the company's Columbus, Ohio headquarters and leaving behind more than 100 million pounds of CRT glass.
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The EPEAT sustainable electronics program now includes mobile phones, providing assurance to buyers that the qualifying devices meet certain standards for end-of-life management.
The Portland, Ore.-based Green Electronics Council, which runs the EPEAT program, 
Global e-commerce site eBay is honoring a California woman who immigrated from Colombia with nothing more than a suitcase and later co-founded a successful e-scrap company.
Angie Cardona-Nelson 
An initiative funded by the federal government could help solve a key materials recovery issue in e-scrap.
The REMADE (Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions) Institute is gearing up to select its first projects to receive funding.
Last month, E-Scrap News readers were drawn to stories about changes at CRT downstream outlets and advancing program reform legislation in Illinois.
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The group that administers the R2 certification has published advice to help certified companies comply with the electronics recycling standard's requirements.
Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)