CSI Leasing, a global firm that owns recycling and electronics processing facilities throughout the world including EPC, has increased its stake in TRY Corporation, an ITAD operation near Tokyo.

Princeton NuEnergy secured another $16 million from investors, including Wistron and Honda, to scale up its lithium-ion battery recycling technology. 

When iFixit went looking for an eastern U.S. site to set up a new logistics/distribution facility, it didn't feel right to build a facility from the ground up. After, the company's ethos is repair, CEO Kyle Wiens said. 

In response to electric power industry requests, the EPA is looking to classify solar panels as universal waste.  

Iron Mountain says used electronics pricing was relatively steady during the third quarter, flattening out revenues for the company's asset lifecycle segment. But Envela Corporation found decreased volumes of incoming electronics and solar panels hurt results at its ITAD and e-scrap companies. 

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: BBB Industries of Sparta, Tenn.; Electronics Value Recovery of Baltimore; GNG Electronics (dba Electronics Bazaar) of Navi Mumbai Thane, Maharashtra, India; Jabil Circuit of Memphis, Ten

Assurant released smartphone sales data for the second quarter of 2023, finding that the average smartphone trade-in value was $135.  Aurubis

[caption id="attachment_23465" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] Bob Nicholson (left) and AJ Orben (middle) speak at the 2023 E-Scrap and E-Reuse Conference in New Orleans, with Jared Paben (right) moderating the session. | Big Wave Productions/E-Scrap News[/caption] Readers last month were drawn to a story about solar panel recycling,

An executive at IT Asset Management Group writes that, in many ways, the ITAD industry is now more sophisticated than its customers, who need to be sold on the necessity of proper equipment disposition.

TES and Enviri both reported progress toward sustainability goals in their 2022 reports.