[caption id="attachment_15046" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Walgreens recently agreed to pay $3.50 million to settle a lawsuit alleging company employees dropped electronics, batteries and other hazardous materials into dumpsters headed to municipal landfills.
[caption id="attachment_14554" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Logitech estimates it will have shipped more than 50 million devices that include recycled plastic by the end of 2021. | Marco Curaba/Shutterstock[/caption]
Logitech has used more post-consumer plastic in its keyboards, mice
[caption id="attachment_15010" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]With a capacity of 6,000 pounds per hour, URT's system was designed to handle the amount of shredded e-plastic generated in URT's Janesville, Wis.
[caption id="attachment_15012" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Beverly Hills, Calif.-headquartered Platinum Equity purchased Ingram Micro for about $1.2 billion more than it sold for in 2016. | YuRi Photolife/Shutterstock[/caption]
Electronics distributing giant Ingram Micro will be
[caption id="attachment_15013" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]The Small Business Administration recently disclosed detailed information on all recipients of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds through Nov.
[caption id="attachment_14523" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Because the U.S. is not a party to the Basel Convention, exports to the 180-plus countries that are parties to the convention will be more complicated, or may even be prohibited by local laws. | AnkaFed/Shutterstock[/caption]
The U.S.
[caption id="attachment_15009" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Local news reports say 52-year-old Christopher Wilson was arriving to work when he was approached by multiple men and shot. | TheaDesign/Shutterstock[/caption]
Law enforcement authorities are investigating a homicide at a Kuusakoski e-scrap processin
[caption id="attachment_14975" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Some analysts predict copper prices will increase close to their 2011 record, when the metal was trading for more than $4.50 per pound. | Syafiq Adnan/Shutterstock[/caption]
Prices for a major metal found in the electronics recycling stream
[caption id="attachment_14965" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Wisconsin’s EPR program covers TVs, monitors, computers and other devices, including printers, computer accessories, DVD players, VCRs and fax machines. | Alexander Lukatskiy/Shutterstock[/caption]
Pandemic
[caption id="attachment_14964" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]E-scrap generation, by weight, is down by almost 10% compared with its peak in 2015. | DAMRONG RATTANAPONG/Shutterstock[/caption]
The weight of electronics entering the recycling stream has dropped consistently since hitting