R2 and e-Stewards representatives are challenging the legality of a bill in Illinois that prohibits accrediting organizations from penalizing e-scrap companies if they send CRT glass to storage cells at a landfill.
A webinar hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week featured presentations from four key processors hungry for more CRT glass.
The webinar, which was organized by U.S. EPA's Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic), received support from the Northeast Recycling Council and the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse.
A hearing on Pennsylvania's e-scrap program touched on a legislative proposal to substantially increase manufacturer collection goals as well as alternative solutions to ensure collected material gets recycled.
The public hearing, organized by the Pennsylvania legislature's Jo
A study out of Europe highlights the environmental virtues of recycling plastics found in electronics, appliances and toys.
The research, published last year in the pages of Science of the Total Environment, compares the environmental benefits of recycling plastics from waste electrical and electronic (WEEE) products to incineration and the use of virgin materia
A company gets the backing of HP to begin collecting outdated computers in Malaysia, and a South African startup gets creative with parts from old devices.
Malaysia: SOLS 24/7, a nonprofit group, has launched a project base
Global Environmental Services filed for bankruptcy in recent months and has since been accused of leaving a wake of CRTs and piles of processed glass in Kentucky and Texas.
Global Environmental Services (GES) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Nov. 2.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city's collection comes in Staten Island.
Funding struggle:Another Pennsylvania county has suspended e-scrap collections.
India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king of Belgium helps highlight donations of refurbished computers to projects in Africa.
India: India has launched a project to train up to 300,000 people involved in the unorganized e-scrap recycling trade.
R2 and e-Stewards representatives are challenging the legality of a bill in Illinois that prohibits accrediting organizations from penalizing e-scrap companies if they send CRT glass to storage cells at a landfill.
A hearing on Pennsylvania's e-scrap program touched on a legislative proposal to substantially increase manufacturer collection goals as well as alternative solutions to ensure collected material gets recycled.
Outerwall, the publicly traded firm that owns electronics trade-in company ecoATM, has been facing financial pressure.
West Virginia has repealed a ban on the landfilling of televisions and other devices.
A study out of Europe highlights the environmental virtues of recycling plastics found in electronics, appliances and toys.
The research, published last year in the pages of Science of the Total Environment, compares the environmental benefits of recycling plastics from waste electrical and electronic (WEEE) products to incineration and the use of virgin materia
A company gets the backing of HP to begin collecting outdated computers in Malaysia, and a South African startup gets creative with parts from old devices.
Global Environmental Services filed for bankruptcy in recent months and has since been accused of leaving a wake of CRTs and piles of processed glass in Kentucky and Texas.
Global Environmental Services (GES) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Nov. 2.
More counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey halt e-scrap collection opportunities. Numbers out of New York City, meanwhile, indicate more than half of the city's collection comes in Staten Island.
Funding struggle: Another Pennsylvania county has suspended e-scrap collections.
India launches a project to train hundreds of thousands of people working in the unorganized e-scrap sector, and the king of Belgium helps highlight donations of refurbished computers to projects in Africa.
India: India has launched a project to train up to 300,000 people involved in the unorganized e-scrap recycling trade.