EPR/Stewardship

Draft regulations would require electronics manufacturers to finance the collection and recycling of e-scrap in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

The province's Environment and Local Government department is seeking public comment on the regulations. New Brunswick, with a population of 754,000 people, would be the last of Canada's Atlantic provinces to implement extended producer responsibility for electronics.

E-scrap firms processed slightly more CRT glass from Washington state in 2014 than they did the year before, according to a report.

Processors handled 10,666 tons of CRT glass in 2014, up 1.3 percent from the CRT weight processed in 2013, according to the annual report by the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority (WMMFA), the electronics manufacturer-funded group coordinating collections and recycling under Washington's E-Cycle program.

Environmental officials in Pennsylvania say manufacturers aren't paying enough to ensure collected electronics are getting recycled.

"The issue here is that the reimbursements being provided by manufacturers are not aligning with the actual costs to recycle the items," Amanda Whitman, spokesperson for the Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), told E-Scrap News.