A recent decision by the Chinese government to more intensely inspect imported shipments of e-scrap and other recovered materials is here to stay, according to one international trade expert.
Steve Wong, the executive president of the China Scrap Plastics Association and the leader of Hong Kong-based plastics recycling company Fukutomi Company Limited, told E-Scrap News the Chinese gover
Whenever Apple indicates a new product release, device-recovery firms join in on the wider consumer market chatter.
Several years of lagging recovered material totals have led leaders of Oregon's e-scrap program to slash weight targets for manufacturers beginning next year.
The state's nine-year-old electronics extended producer responsibility program, titled Oregon E-Cycles, sets a weight-based obligation for manufacturers to collect devices each year.
The e-scrap export criminal case involving Colorado's Executive Recycling has seen recent developments after being tied up in appeals for the past four years.
Brandon Richter, owner and CEO of now-defunct Executive Recycling, was re-sentenced to federal prison June 16, on a reduced sentence as part of a plea agreement.
Bankruptcies are a fact of the business world, and the electronics recycling sector is no exception.
Com2 Recycling Solutions is opening a facility in Georgia as it expands its capacity to produce a glaze product from CRT glass. The glaze is currently used on tile products made by Brazilian manufacturers.
Illinois-based Com2 says the move will increase its total CRT processing capacity to 200 tons of intact devices per day and could also give e-scrap companies in the southern U.S.
An electronics reuse and recycling company CEO has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for his role in an effort to copy, import and sell counterfeit Microsoft software.
Clifford Eric Lundgren, 33, pled guilty to criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods in federal court on Feb. 28.
Illinois-based PC Rebuilders & Recyclers (PCRR) has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, indicating it plans to sell off its assets to pay creditors.
The company has less than $50,000 in assets and its liabilities total between $1 million and $10 million, according to the 
Canada-based EnviroLeach is planning to open a processing facility that will use a non-toxic water-based formula to recover precious metals.
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Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) has reported its first known instance of an e-scrap processor creating a fraudulent R2 certificate.
According to SERI, which administers the R2 electronics recycling standard, Secure Recycling presented a doctored R2 certificate in an attempt to win a contract from a school district.