A study out of Europe highlights the environmental virtues of recycling plastics found in electronics, appliances and toys.
The research, published last year in the pages of Science of the Total Environment, compares the environmental benefits of recycling plastics from waste electrical and electronic (WEEE) products to incineration and the use of virgin materia
A company gets the backing of HP to begin collecting outdated computers in Malaysia, and a South African startup gets creative with parts from old devices.
Malaysia: SOLS 24/7, a nonprofit group, has launched a project base
Global Environmental Services filed for bankruptcy in recent months and has since been accused of leaving a wake of CRTs and piles of processed glass in Kentucky and Texas.
Global Environmental Services (GES) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Nov. 2.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city's collection comes in Staten Island.
Funding struggle:Another Pennsylvania county has suspended e-scrap collections.
India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king of Belgium helps highlight donations of refurbished computers to projects in Africa.
India: India has launched a project to train up to 300,000 people involved in the unorganized e-scrap recycling trade.
New York state officials will dip into an environmental fund to pay half of the e-scrap recycling expenses incurred each year by counties.
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will tap into the state's Environmental Protection Fund to pay up to half of each county's annual e-scrap expenses, up to a maximum of $2 mi
Outerwall, the publicly traded firm that owns electronics trade-in company ecoATM, has been facing financial pressure.
West Virginia has repealed a ban on the landfilling of televisions and other devices.
A study out of Europe highlights the environmental virtues of recycling plastics found in electronics, appliances and toys.
The research, published last year in the pages of Science of the Total Environment, compares the environmental benefits of recycling plastics from waste electrical and electronic (WEEE) products to incineration and the use of virgin materia
A company gets the backing of HP to begin collecting outdated computers in Malaysia, and a South African startup gets creative with parts from old devices.
Global Environmental Services filed for bankruptcy in recent months and has since been accused of leaving a wake of CRTs and piles of processed glass in Kentucky and Texas.
Global Environmental Services (GES) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Nov. 2.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city's collection comes in Staten Island.
Funding struggle: Another Pennsylvania county has suspended e-scrap collections.
India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king of Belgium helps highlight donations of refurbished computers to projects in Africa.
India: India has launched a project to train up to 300,000 people involved in the unorganized e-scrap recycling trade.
New York state officials will dip into an environmental fund to pay half of the e-scrap recycling expenses incurred each year by counties.
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will tap into the state's Environmental Protection Fund to pay up to half of each county's annual e-scrap expenses, up to a maximum of $2 mi
After a five-month hiatus, India's Videocon has begun accepting CRT glass from its main U.S.