HP and other electronics manufacturers recently made recycling- and repair-related announcements. | BalkansCat/Shutterstock[/caption]
A brand owner unveiled a printer made with 30% recycled plastic from old electronics, and iFixit gives better marks for a new Microsoft laptop.
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Baltic Control has approval to inspect a variety of U.S. shipments to China | stockstudio/Shutterstock[/caption]
U.S.
U.S. e-scrap processors and brokers say they're currently able to move e-plastics. | Alexey Lesik/Shutterstock[/caption]
Asia remains the destination for many plastics recovered from electronics.
Ingram Micro has been quickly expanding with new ITAD centers in recent years. | JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock[/caption]
Global ITAD provider Ingram Micro will open a processing facility in the Indianapolis area, the company's second location in th
PCs for People handles about 3,500 computers a month. | Courtesy of PCs for People[/caption]
PCs for People, a nonprofit group that performs ITAD services for businesses and provides refurbished computers to low-income people, is growing its processing footprint in three cities
This isn't the first time Epson has been sued over printer cartridges. | Grzegorz Czapski/Shutterstock[/caption]
A lawsuit accuses Epson America of illegally disabling its printers via software updates when consumers use third-party printer car
In Vancouver, Wash., Simon Metals operated a 55,000-square-foot end-of-life electronics processing facility.
Ken Ehresman, president of Advanced Technology Recycling. | E-Scrap Conference and Trade Show/Brian Adams Photography[/caption]
Finding ways to grow or differentiate one's business is key to viability.
Researchers discovered employees working near an e-scrap shredder had elevated levels of lead in their blood. | Jarun Ontakrai/Shutterstock[/caption]
This story has been updated.
Testing at a New England e-scrap facility showed that two employees working near 
E-plastics have been heavily impacted by market shifts in the past two years. | myibean/Shutterstock[/caption]
A European effort is calling on consumers to push manufacturers into using recycled plastic in new electronics as a way to build end markets for the challenging mater