The world's two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier.
But, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), overall smartphone shipments rose over the previous year, thanks to substantial increases from Chinese manufacturers.
Overall, 2016 saw about 1.47 billion smartphones shipped worldwide, I
Even with the tough economic times of 2016, the electronics recycling membership of a key trade association remained fairly stable.
E-Scrap News analyzed the published membership lists for 2015-16 and 2016-17 for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), and focused only on the pure-play e-scrap members (firms that are solely involved in
An Indian teenager begins collecting e-scrap after becoming sick from a nearby burning site, and collection programs get off the ground in the nations of Georgia and Kenya.
Kenya: An e-scrap collection center will be established in the North Rift region of Kenya, a country that has more than 20 million electronic device users, 
Farmers join the fight to allow consumers to repair electronics, and a lack of available recycling options leads to the dumping of CRT televisions along roadways in one state.
Free recycling: A North Carolina environmental protection group subsidized an e-scrap collection program in a county that has struggled to recycle electronics du
College students in Manitoba, Canada won a cash prize last week for coming up with an innovative way to reduce volumes of electronic waste.
As the IT asset disposition industry matures, market factors are pushing hard toward more asset reuse rather than commodity sales.
Data security procedures are being put to the test in an extensive study from the National Association for Information Destruction.
Researchers are examining 250 pieces of recovered electronic equipment, including conventional hard drives and solid-state drives, the association 
New Life Electronics Recycling has indicated it has no assets and owes a total of more than $1 million to dozens of creditors.
As a result, Oswego, Ill.,-based New Life submitted a voluntary Chapter 7 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Illinois. It was submitted Jan.