News from ER2, Lyft and more

By rr_test_admin, 30 November, 2022
The CSA Group released a report on repairability access in Canada.  ER2 received the Arizona Corporate Excellence Award and Community Impact Award for its donation of laptops and volunteer hours.  e-Stewards hired two new staff members, Selena Turlock as acting e-Stewards certification director and Chloe Schierbeck as the administrative assistant at the Basel Action Network. India plans to require USB-C universal chargers for all smartphones, laptops and tablets, following a similar mandate from the EU.  Lyft partnered with Redwood Materials to recycle its e-bike and scooter batteries.  The U.N. Environment Programme partnered with Kenyan spoken word poet Beatrice Kariuki on a short video series exploring the risks of poor waste management, including a video on e-scrap.