refurbishment/reuse

An Ohio-based specialist in ITAD and electronics reuse has acquired the electronics recycling arm of Hugo Neu.

Sage Sustainable Electronics this week announced it acquired Hugo Neu Recycling, which is based in New York. The deal was a non-cash transaction, according to Sage CEO Bob Houghton. Hugo Neu will become a wholly owned Sage subsidiary.

Electronic Recyclers International has teamed up with iFixit to move further into reselling working parts and pieces of devices instead of shredding them.

First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the partnership will see ERI's operations across the country set aside large quantities of tested and working parts for iFixit to resell online alongside its traditional offering of tools and free repair manuals.

Bulk unlocking of cellphone and tablets for resale does not violate copyright law and should continue to be allowed, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries told the U.S.

Don’t think intellectual property laws apply to the scrap electronics recycling and refurbishment industry?

A "right-to-repair" bill in the New York legislature would require electronics manufacturers to provide repair and recycling information, parts and tools to independent e-scrap recycling entities. The bill, S3998 in the state's Senate and A6068 in the Assembly, would require manufacturers to provide the same information, parts and tools to independent shops and individual consumers that they provide to authorized repair centers. A similar bill has been introduced in

A group of socially minded e-scrap firms have joined together to help open job opportunities for people with disabilities or previous incarcerations.

The Los Angeles-based Impact Recyclers is a network of certified social enterprise e-scrap recycling companies. The network currently includes seven recycling entities – some for-profit and some nonprofit groups – with locations in California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota and New York.

The Librarian of Congress has determined it is now illegal to unlock mobile phones, leaving many in the burgeoning mobile device refurbishment business scrambling to determine how the law will affect their business. The Library of Congress oversees U.S. copyright law, and as of Jan. 26 it now interprets unlocking any carrier-subsidized wireless devices as a violation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans technologies that violate copyright protections.