[caption id="attachment_14157" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Remote audits have become a more common option in recent months. | shelleygraphy/Shutterstock[/caption]
The coronavirus has forced e-scrap companies to navigate material supply shifts, tackle new safety concerns and confron
[caption id="attachment_14119" align="aligncenter" width="900"]In comments to the EPA, NASA recommended that federal procurement guidelines point purchasers toward recycled-content ink cartridges. | David Tonelson/Shutterstock[/caption]
As the U.S.
[caption id="attachment_13896" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The Basel Action Network estimates that since the EarthEye program started over a dozen customers have used the trackers. | Aunging/Shutterstock[/caption]
Samsung is deploying 40 GPS trackers a year to follow the downstream movement of scrap electronics
[caption id="attachment_13844" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is an international treaty governing how waste is moved around the world. | mayday6510/Shutterstock[/caption]
Multiple
[caption id="attachment_13764" align="aligncenter" width="900"]CalRecycle staff said their recommendation to raise payment rates was based on updated cost data submitted by e-scrap collectors and processors, as well as other factors. | DAMRONG RATTANAPONG/Shutterstock[/caption]
Citing difficult market conditions and rising costs f
[caption id="attachment_13713" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The Open Markets Institute recently called on the federal government to ensure consumers have the parts, tools, information and software necessary to repair their products.
[caption id="attachment_13448" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The electronics recovery business is escaping widespread regulations that are closing companies in other fields. | Mikhail Starodubov/Shutterstock[/caption]
E-scrap and ITAD operations are largely falling into the category of essential services amid the coron
[caption id="attachment_13398" align="aligncenter" width="960"]View of staging area for pallets of batteries at Battery and Electronics Recycling Inc. | Courtesy of U.S.
[caption id="attachment_13337" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]EPA alleged AERC was out of compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which governs hazardous waste management. | JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock[/caption]
An e-scrap company must pay a $10,000 fine and hold one or more collection events costing $40,000, a