The average resale price for desktop computers and laptops has grown over the past two and a half years, according to a report by a prominent ITAD company.
Cascade Asset Management has published reports on resale value trends on a mostly annual basis since 2007, generally looking at three years of data.
Processing electronics and processing fluorescent lights are distinct sectors, but they share one important trait: Each carries a risk of exposing your facility and workers to mercury.
Despite that fact, the two sectors are regulated differently.
A company that manages mobile phone take-back programs has invested more than $1 million in a new processing site and plans to hire hundreds of workers in the coming months.
Hyla Mobile has opened a 100,000-square-foot used cell phone processing facility in La Vergne, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.
The Farmers Branch, Texas-headquartered company manages phone trade-in programs
The former leaders of CRT outlet Closed Loop Refining and Recovery have been directed by a court to pay more than $18 million for breaking the lease at the company's Columbus, Ohio headquarters and leaving behind more than 100 million pounds of CRT glass.
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The EPEAT sustainable electronics program now includes mobile phones, providing assurance to buyers that the qualifying devices meet certain standards for end-of-life management.
The Portland, Ore.-based Green Electronics Council, which runs the EPEAT program, 
Global e-commerce site eBay is honoring a California woman who immigrated from Colombia with nothing more than a suitcase and later co-founded a successful e-scrap company.
Angie Cardona-Nelson 
An initiative funded by the federal government could help solve a key materials recovery issue in e-scrap.
The REMADE (Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions) Institute is gearing up to select its first projects to receive funding.
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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.
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