Last year, lawmakers failed to pass legislation reforming Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program. With the introduction of a bipartisan bill this year, some of them want to take another go at it.
Republican state Rep.
Recent upward price movements for some precious and base metals have made e-scrap recycling executives happy.
The value of gold has been on a month-long price rise, with investors moving money from equities into commodities.
At the same time, the value of copper and aluminum on the metal exchanges has risen to three-year highs as a result
[caption id="attachment_6340" align="alignright" width="161"] Mark Schaffer[/caption]
Years ago, large groups of people came together representing many different perspectives on electronics and sustainability.
[caption id="attachment_6321" align="alignright" width="258"] Jim Levine, Regency Technologies[/caption]
We're less than a month away from this year's E-Scrap Conference, which will be held in Orlando, Fla.
A worldwide police operation busted people suspected of illegal waste shipping and disposal, mostly involving metals and scrap electronics, according to Interpol.
The group, which facilitates cooperation between nearly 200 countries' police forces, announced the results of a month-long coordinated campaign to disrupt organized crime groups involved in the i
State and federal regulators are putting pressure on an Iowa CRT processor they say has illegally stockpiled glass and allowed lead to contaminate the ground.
The U.S.
[caption id="attachment_6249" align="alignright" width="300"] CRTs stockpiled in a eWaste Tech warehouse in Richmond, Va.[/caption]
A property owner and public waste authority are at odds over a CRT stockpile in Richmond, Va. Meanwhile, the U.S.
The average resale price for desktop computers and laptops has grown over the past two and a half years, according to a report by a prominent ITAD company.
Cascade Asset Management has published reports on resale value trends on a mostly annual basis since 2007, generally looking at three years of data.
Processing electronics and processing fluorescent lights are distinct sectors, but they share one important trait: Each carries a risk of exposing your facility and workers to mercury.
Despite that fact, the two sectors are regulated differently.
A company that manages mobile phone take-back programs has invested more than $1 million in a new processing site and plans to hire hundreds of workers in the coming months.
Hyla Mobile has opened a 100,000-square-foot used cell phone processing facility in La Vergne, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.
The Farmers Branch, Texas-headquartered company manages phone trade-in programs
Last year, lawmakers failed to pass legislation reforming Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program. With the introduction of a bipartisan bill this year, some of them want to take another go at it.
Republican state Rep.
Recent upward price movements for some precious and base metals have made e-scrap recycling executives happy.
The value of gold has been on a month-long price rise, with investors moving money from equities into commodities.
At the same time, the value of copper and aluminum on the metal exchanges has risen to three-year highs as a result 
Mark Schaffer[/caption]
Years ago, large groups of people came together representing many different perspectives on electronics and sustainability.
Jim Levine, Regency Technologies[/caption]
We're less than a month away from this year's 
A worldwide police operation busted people suspected of illegal waste shipping and disposal, mostly involving metals and scrap electronics, according to Interpol.
The group, which facilitates cooperation between nearly 200 countries' police forces, announced the results of a month-long coordinated campaign to disrupt organized crime groups involved in the i
State and federal regulators are putting pressure on an Iowa CRT processor they say has illegally stockpiled glass and allowed lead to contaminate the ground.
The U.S.
CRTs stockpiled in a eWaste Tech warehouse in Richmond, Va.[/caption]
A property owner and public waste authority are at odds over a CRT stockpile in Richmond, Va. Meanwhile, the U.S.
The average resale price for desktop computers and laptops has grown over the past two and a half years, according to a report by a prominent ITAD company.
Cascade Asset Management has published reports on resale value trends on a mostly annual basis since 2007, generally looking at three years of data.
Processing electronics and processing fluorescent lights are distinct sectors, but they share one important trait: Each carries a risk of exposing your facility and workers to mercury.
Despite that fact, the two sectors are regulated differently.
A company that manages mobile phone take-back programs has invested more than $1 million in a new processing site and plans to hire hundreds of workers in the coming months.
Hyla Mobile has opened a 100,000-square-foot used cell phone processing facility in La Vergne, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.
The Farmers Branch, Texas-headquartered company manages phone trade-in programs