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About 600 electronics recycling, repair and manufacturing stakeholders convened in Austin, Texas, for the first annual Electronics Sustainability Summit hosted by electronics certification organization SERI.

Legislative action on batteries is speeding up, but some of those laws are missing their marks and creating a regulatory environment that is difficult to recycle in, panelists said at the recent E-Scrap Conference in Orlando.

After starting in plastics, an online recycled material trading platform is expanding into glass, metal, rubber, OCC and paper and will soon add e-scrap. 

Repair shops and advocates convened during the first day of the Electronics Sustainability Summit this week to share tips on improving repair businesses, the evolution of OEM and repair community relationships and the repair legislative landscape. 

Federal regulators have fined URT more than $200,000 for multiple instances of workers exposed to elevated lead and cadmium levels during cathode ray tube device dismantling at the company's Wisconsin location.

After several years commercializing its technology, Australia-based hydrometallurgical processing company Mint Innovation is getting ready to build its first U.S. facility, which will provide an outlet for various grades of circuit boards.

With domestic demand building slowly, U.S. processors must look to industries outside electronics manufacturing to absorb their e-plastics volumes, according to panelists at the recent E-Scrap Conference in Orlando.

Arizona-based ITAD company DMD Systems Recovery shared recycling and reuse data in its 2023 impact report, and updated its carbon-neutral goals. 

Leaders of major ITAD firm Ingram Micro have signaled their intent to list the company on the New York Stock Exchange, which would mark a return to publicly traded status after about eight years as a private company.

Nearly 1,000 people from the electronic recycling and reuse sector came to Orlando, Florida, to take in exhibitor booths and sessions on the latest industry trends at the 2024 E-Scrap Conference, captured by our event photographer, Big Wave Productions.