A product offering from iFixit can help tackle one of the largest roadblocks to increased device repairability and refurbishment: glued-in batteries.
The adhesive removal solution comes in a small bottle with a syringe, which is used to squirt the chemical around the perimeter underneath the battery.
A battery stewardship group in North America has launched a campaign with information on collecting and shipping batteries safely.
Call2Recycle calls its outreach effort "
Researchers are gathering information about the global generation and flow of e-scrap, and they plan to publish their findings in November.
The project is being framed as a tool to help address several goals related to used electronics, including promoting recycling, creating refurbishment jobs, preventing illegal dumping
As New Jersey regulators implement changes to the state's electronics recycling law, they say they have no intention of creating a statewide standard plan, according to the leader of a recycling group in the state.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on July 10 held a meeting in the capital of Trenton to update st
The fate of Nulife Glass is in question, with the firm halting operations as it struggles to meet regulator demands to remove CRT glass stored in warehouses.
Nulife, which originally started in the U.K., began operating in the U.S. in 2013. The company opened its headquarters in Dunkirk, N.Y. and began running a CRT glass furnace last year.
A federal appeals court will allow the founder of an electronics recycling company to stay out of prison while he appeals his 15-month sentence tied to software counterfeiting.
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House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S.
Chinese authorities say the country will prohibit some grades of recovered plastic and other materials from being imported by the end of 2017.
Worldwide shipments of PCs continued a nearly three-year consistent decline during the past year, industry analysts reported this month.
PC manufacturers shipped just over 61 million units during the second quarter of 2017, which is between 2 million and 3 million fewer than a year earlier, depending on the analysis.
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A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
The European Parliament on July 4 voted to