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A well-known annual IT industry survey conducted by ITAD firm Cascade Asset Management found the device resale market crash that began in 2022 has begun to change course.

Leaders of the R2 and e-Stewards certification standards present a joint opinion on the importance of industry compliance with new global trade rules regulating exports of plastics recovered from electronics.

[caption id="attachment_13500" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Major electronics manufacturers joined with the Consumer Technology Association to form the Consumer Technology Circularity Initiative | Olga Miltsova/Shutterstock[/caption] Recycling technologies targeting batteries and rare earth magnets drew reader attention last month, as did cov

Another nail in the CRT coffin arrived in December in the form of the U.S. EPA's updated Waste Reduction Model (WARM) tool.

A lithium-ion battery recycling technology company is looking to build regional supply chains by providing recyclers and manufacturers with modular units that can take batteries from black mass to pCAM. 

A young technology company’s imaging system combines cameras, X-rays and artificial intelligence to allow e-scrap processors and municipal recycling facilities to peer into their inbound device streams and remove the hidden menace of lithium-ion batteries and other hazards.

The 2024 legislative season is already picking up speed, and in the e-scrap sector, responsible management of batteries is taking center stage. 

A man has pleaded guilty for his role in a stock manipulation scheme that artificially inflated the value of E-Waste Corporation, an unsuccessful electronics processing startup, to $120 million, despite the company having no operations or revenue.

IT asset disposition firm 4THBIN and downstream processor ecoTech Management have joined together in a move company leaders say merges their expertise in the front-end and back-end sectors of used device management.

Electronics manufacturers are making their devices more sustainable every day, with longer-lasting products, reused materials, take-back programs and designs that have repair and recycling in mind from the start, industry experts told an audience of e-scrap recyclers last year.