[caption id="attachment_14079" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13916" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
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.
[caption id="attachment_16935" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13892" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13846" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13798" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13796" align="aligncenter" width="900"]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
[caption id="attachment_13650" align="aligncenter" width="900"]News about an automated system using lasers to dismantle e-scrap captured attention in May.