Recently released federal regulations will require e-scrap businesses and others in high-hazard industries to keep detailed logs of workplace-related injuries.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finalized a rule that requires processing companies to report injury details to OSHA on an annual basis.
A recently released export tracking study from the Basel Action Network found that roughly one-third of low-value devices dropped off for recycling in the U.S.
Seattle-based Total Reclaim has admitted to exporting broken, mercury-containing flat panel monitors to Hong Kong after an investigation by the Basel Action Network followed the devices overseas.
With collection events held throughout the country to honor Earth Day last week,industry companies and organizations took to Twitter to rally around the cause of electronics recycling.
Here's a look at some of the chatter:
Apple recovered around 61 million pounds of e-scrap in 2015, according to the company.
"We work hard to keep electronic devices out of landfills so that the precious resources they contain can be reused," the company stated in its latest Environmental Responsibility Report.
The industry watchdog group BAN recently found certified processing companies exporting non-functional electronics.
Legislation to update Pennsylvania's struggling e-scrap program has been introduced to the state's General Assembly.
A recently released export tracking study from the Basel Action Network found that roughly one-third of low-value devices dropped off for recycling in the U.S.
Seattle-based Total Reclaim has admitted to exporting broken, mercury-containing flat panel monitors to Hong Kong after an investigation by the Basel Action Network followed the devices overseas.
A lobbyist has been hired by R2 and e-Stewards to stage a last-minute fight against a bill that's moving swiftly through the Illinois legislature.
CRT glass at Closed Loop's S 59th. Ave site in Phoenix.
Illinois legislators are quickly advancing a bill that aims to make it easier for e-scrap companies to send CRT glass to storage cells.