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By rr_test_admin, 16 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14079" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Gold on a scrap circuit board. Gold is a key metal for e-scrap processors. | Don Bendickson/Shutterstock[/caption] Prices for an important precious metal increased notably in recent weeks, raising the value of recovered printed circuit boards. Gold is t
By rr_test_admin, 2 July, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_13916" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Recycling equipment in the eCycle Solutions facility. News about an e-scrap company's $1.5 million investment in a plastics cleanup line caught attention last month.[/caption] A variety of articles drew readers' attention last month, including financial problems at an ITAD firm's parent company, hazardous waste cri
By rr_test_admin, 2 July, 2020
A battery recycling company leader explains how China has dominated the global production of rare earth elements, but he says North America can secure supplies of these crucial materials by embracing battery recycling.
By rr_test_admin, 18 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_16935" align="aligncenter" width="900"]MSC cargo ship at port. Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock[/caption] A major shipping line will no longer accept recovered plastic and other scrap material shipments bound for Hong Kong, wh
By rr_test_admin, 18 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13892" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Copyright key on a keyboard. Medical device manufacturer Steris sent a letter to iFixit demanding repair manuals be removed from the firm's website. | mtkang/Shutterstock[/caption] Repair support organization iFixit has received a threatening letter from a medical device manufacture
By rr_test_admin, 11 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13846" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Microsoft company building exterior. Microsoft on June 4 sent an email to companies participating in its Registered Refurbisher Program notifying them the program will end later this year. | mardon 333/Shutterstock[/caption] Over 1,700 North American compute
By rr_test_admin, 4 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13798" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Fire alarm on a wall. A recent study found thermal events occurring at all stages of the WEEE collection and processing chain. | nongningstudio/Shutterstock[/caption] A new report notes more and more fires are breaking out in electronics collection and processing facilities
By rr_test_admin, 4 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13796" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Apple logo outside a company store. Apple recently won its appeal in a case centered on a repair company's use of mobile screens that Apple claimed were counterfeit parts. | Vytautas Kielaitis/Shutterstock[/caption] Norway's top court ruled against
By rr_test_admin, 4 June, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_13650" align="aligncenter" width="900"] News about an automated system using lasers to dismantle e-scrap captured attention in May.