Whether they were small repair business owners, industry associations or passionate individuals, hundreds of commenters on a recent right-to-repair petition to the Federal Trade Commission broadly agreed that consumers ought to have more options for fixing their devices and using them longer. 

The following are facilities that have achieved, renewed or otherwise regained R2 certification recently: Eco Fly E-Waste Recycling of Meerut, India; Hyper Microsystems of Rolling Meadows, Illinois; RD Trading Limited of Essex, United Kingdom; and Tech Tree Recycler of Leominster, Massachusetts.  After completing successful audit

The Colorado House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Federal Trade Commission to create a federal repairability score system.  Li-Cycle receive

A long-running electronics reuse conference is under new ownership by a certification standards organization and has a new name, reflecting a goal to focus on a broader concept of "sustainability" in device management.

A well-known annual IT industry survey conducted by ITAD firm Cascade Asset Management found the device resale market crash that began in 2022 has begun to change course.

Leaders of the R2 and e-Stewards certification standards present a joint opinion on the importance of industry compliance with new global trade rules regulating exports of plastics recovered from electronics.

[caption id="attachment_13500" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Major electronics manufacturers joined with the Consumer Technology Association to form the Consumer Technology Circularity Initiative | Olga Miltsova/Shutterstock[/caption] Recycling technologies targeting batteries and rare earth magnets drew reader attention last month, as did cov

Another nail in the CRT coffin arrived in December in the form of the U.S. EPA's updated Waste Reduction Model (WARM) tool.

A lithium-ion battery recycling technology company is looking to build regional supply chains by providing recyclers and manufacturers with modular units that can take batteries from black mass to pCAM. 

A young technology company’s imaging system combines cameras, X-rays and artificial intelligence to allow e-scrap processors and municipal recycling facilities to peer into their inbound device streams and remove the hidden menace of lithium-ion batteries and other hazards.