An online marketplace for refurbished devices has expanded into the U.S., and company leaders are looking for refurbishers to join the platform.
Back Market does not refurbish products but rather provides a space where refurbished electronics, mostly smartphones, can be sold online
The processing line at Proambi's facility in Mexico, photo courtesy of Salvador Río[/caption]
Mexico may be America's neighbor to the south, but in some ways, the e-scrap ecosystems in the two nations are worlds apart.
Daisy, Apple's new device disassembly robot, can dismantle up to 200 devices per hour.[/caption]
When it comes to in-house recycling, Apple is diving deeper into droids.
The OEM laid out the details on its new robot, “Daisy,” in the company’s 
Shuttered CRT processor Nulife Glass continues to wade through a lengthy and costly cleanup of its East Coast operations.
The company, which had developed a furnace technology but closed last year, has thus far removed an estimated 19,765 tons of glass from its operations in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, E-Scrap News has learned.
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E-scrap materials, including CRT glass, sit abandoned in rural Wyoming, with the site's former owner in prison and regulatory agencies still working to determine who should handle a cleanup.
As the conversation slowly moves forward, piles of scrap electronics remain inside and outside the vacant facility about 20 miles from Cheyenne, Wyo., and the site has experienced a 
Scott Vander Kooy, president of Comprenew, signs a contract with Goodwill of Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan in late March.[/caption]
A nonprofit e-scrap processor's expansion into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan provides a case study in how service area reach can be widened without incurring major capital costs.
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Over the past decade, third-party certification has become an expectation for many processors and refurbishers of electronics.
R2, which is administered by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) and offers its certification on a facility-by-facility basis,