Mobile device reseller ecoATM Gazelle secured a $50 million investment to expand its enterprise partnerships and platforms. 

When the CEO of electronics reuse and recycling company R3eWaste decided to license the firm's operations management software to the industry at large, he recognized that no competitors would bite if R3eWaste still used it. 

Canadian company Electra Battery Materials reported its plant-scale black mass recycling trials were successful.   Kurt Kyck, managing director of Irish e-scrap and metals recycling company KMK Metals Recycling

A subsidiary of Igneo Technologies, evTerra Recycling has achieved e-Stewards certification at its headquarters location in Atlanta and its newly opened locations near Las Vegas and Chicago.  The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: America Asset of Orlando, Fla.; Arrow Scrap Corporation locations

[caption id="attachment_17433" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] In March, readers were drawn to coverage of how Iron Mountain's acquisition of ITRenew boosted its financial results.

As demand for electric vehicles declines, prices for lithium, cobalt and copper are sliding down, potentially putting lithium-ion battery recyclers in a tight spot. 

Oregon's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that expands and revamps the state's extended producer responsibility law for electronics. 

Best Buy has launched a program through which consumers can purchase boxes to ship scrap electronics to ERI for recycling. 

Metals producer Mitsubishi Materials purchased a stake in a startup working to build a smelter in Indiana. Meanwhile, the company unveiled plans to substantially increase e-scrap recycling capacity at its Japanese smelters.

Ascend Elements opened its first commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga.