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A manufacturer has been recognized for its process that uses 100 percent post-consumer plastics from e-scrap, as well as packaging and textiles, sourced from recycling companies across the U.S. EcoStrate recycles hard-to-recycle materials into a composite sheet, which goes into indoor and outdoor signage.

For the 21st consecutive year, Call2Recycle set a new record in its battery and cellphone collection volume last year.

Rigid data-security regulations in Europe will present opportunities for businesses that are prepared, and discarded mobile devices in Australia create untapped potential for materials recovery. Australia: There are more than 23 million unused but not-yet-discarded phones in the Land Down Under, according to electronics collection company MobileMuster.

Fair Trade Recycling launches a takeback offset program in Africa, and rare earth metals will increase in demand. Offset impact: Advocates of legal exports of used electronics often point out that much of the material in crude processing sites was generated in those developing countries themselves.

More than 134,000 jobs in the U.S. are in some way supported by recycled commodities exports, according to a new analysis. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) commissioned a study of the economic impacts of scrap recycling.

This story has been updated. Major changes to the Illinois electronics recycling program have been proposed, including a requirement that manufacturers fund the recycling of all covered devices that enter the system. Introduced in February,

As information comes to light about widespread landfilling of CRT glass in California, electronics recycling standards R2 and e-Stewards are working to determine their next steps. Leaders of R2 have hired an attorney to figure out whether California law is forcing firms to defy the standard's CRT glass recycling requirements.

Residents fear a local government e-scrap collection program will harm charities, and recycling professionals describe the routes they took into the industry. Ghana: The Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana announced it will establish an e-scrap collection center in the country's Ashanti region, in an effort to reduce unsafe

Unlike in consumer markets, repairing CRT displays remains a common practice for the aviation industry, and a new phone's screen may look cool but it's prone to breaking. CRT use: Although CRT devices have all but been phased out of the consumer market, CRT usage remains relatively common in cockpits of airplanes.

Markets and regulations are forcing companies active in the nation’s largest state electronics recycling program to landfill CRT glass.