Canadian precious metal recovery company EnviroMetal officially closed its e-scrap facility, completing its transition to simply licensing out its metals recovery technology to gold miners. 

Cascade Asset Management found that selling used electronics through e-commerce marketplaces brought substantially more revenue growth than selling to wholesalers last year. The ITAD company still joined many others in suffering an overall drop in prices. 

e-Stewards made a 50% first-year discount, introduced last year, permanent.

Electronic Responsible Recyclers (ER2) has achieved e-Stewards certification at all eight of its locations, which are Phoenix; Mesa, Ariz.; Memphis, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Winter Haven, Fla.; West Sacramento, Calif.; and Houston.  The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: 123 Repair Shop of Teterboro, N.J.; Aleia Corp.

Stories about a notable acquisition, CRT processing line upgrades, the R2 changeover deadline and more drew the clicks last month.

Global tech manufacturer HP made progress on its sustainability goals in 2022, using 45% more recycled metals and auditing twice as many recyclers as the previous year. 

S3 Recycling Solutions is growing strategically, adding both another building and a chief operations officer to improve its procedures. 

Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations launched a carbon calculator that will allow customers to estimate how many scope 3 emissions their recycling diverts. It also released its first Environmental, Social, and Governance report. 

At his current rate, the former CEO of 5R Processors will fully pay off his $2 million in court-ordered e-scrap abandonment restitution in roughly 1,200 years. Knowing that, Wisconsin lawmakers just approved allocating another $2 million in public funds to clean up the mess.

Boliden partially resumed production at a smelter that had been damaged by fire, but is considering layoffs.  Doe Run Company