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Copper recycler Aurubis says an audit that's underway will reveal just how much valuable metal has been stolen from its Hamburg, Germany smelter. It could be hundreds of millions of dollars worth. 

E-Scrap company evTerra Recycling has opened its San Antonio plant, closing the last chapter of the company's nationwide expansion project. 

Packaging and Crating Technologies (PACT) and Fireproof Solutions have collaborated to create an agent that works "quickly, safely and neatly" to put out lithium-ion battery fires. 

A secondary aluminum company has begun licensing a technology to reduce impurities in molten recycled aluminum, according to the REMADE Institute. 

The total e-scrap weight handled by Washington state's program dropped, one device was wrongly exported to the Middle East and a processor exited the program last year, according to an annual report.

In its latest round of equity funding, battery recycler Redwood Materials netted $1 billion to put toward its capacity-building efforts. 

Electronics recycling and reuse companies say insurance has become significantly more expensive and difficult to manage, so they're employing a number of strategies to cope.

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Baltimore County, Md., is working with Securis to expand its e-scrap recycling program. 

Low used electronics pricing in China, margin compression and inflation conspired to cut Sims Lifecycle Services' profits in half during the 2023 fiscal year, executives said.