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Leaders at Aurubis believe the company may have been ripped off to the tune of $194 million worth of metal, and insurance proceeds and restitution are unlikely to fully compensate the smelter company.

In today's increasingly digital world, access to technology has become more crucial than ever. Digital Inclusion Week, which is next week (Oct. 2-6), is a timely reminder of the ongoing efforts to bridge the digital divide and ensure everyone has equal opportunities in the digital age. While this annual observance focuses on various aspects of digital inclusion, one often overlooked yet vital player in this arena is the e-scrap industry. In this article, we will explore the significant role that responsible e-scrap management plays in digital inclusion efforts and how recycling and refurbishing electronics can benefit both communities and businesses.

Pyxera Global, FedEx and TERRA are collaborating to find out whether mail-in collections for consumers can work at scale to generate a meaningful quantity of used devices. 

This year's E-Scrap Conference and E-Reuse Conference drew 1,200 electronics reuse and recycling professionals to New Orleans. Our photographer, Big Wave Productions, was on hand to capture images of the activity.

Houston-based processor CompuCycle is putting the finishing touches on an e-plastics sorting line, the latest domestic investment in plastics processing capacity.

Ascend Elements raised a total of $542 million in equity investments to help scale up its lithium-ion battery manufacturing. 

Google will now provide a decade of automatic software updates for Chromebooks, a move that will allow refurbishers to resell computers that would otherwise be destroyed for commodities recovery.

Four e-scrap companies agreed to pay a combined $937,000 to fund a portion of the cleanup of over 100 million pounds of CRT materials in Phoenix. 

Metals and electronics recycling company First America is leveraging a handful of partnerships to process material from electric vehicles and other streams.

Amazon's large-scale data center decommissioning facility coming to Pennsylvania will be a "huge part" of the company's sustainability drive, which focuses on reusing and remanufacturing as much as possible, a company representative said.