Canada

Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions. The furnace initiative was announced in 2011, and the company aimed for completion within three years.

Most people agree electronics should be recycled rather than thrown away, but consensus quickly evaporates when discussing how the costs should be paid. "Figuring out how to pay for recycling electronics is difficult," said Sarah Murray, coordinator of Wisconsin's E-Cycle program, during a recent webinar.

An employee at an e-scrap facility in Ontario discovered just how much money there is in used electronics. A worker at the Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP) processing facility in Barrie, Ontario was dismantling an old TV when he discovered more than $100,000 in cash inside,

College students in Manitoba, Canada won a cash prize last week for coming up with an innovative way to reduce volumes of electronic waste. University of Manitoba students Haneen Shouman, Maria Sanchez and Michael Hall proposed the idea of an annual weekend-long curbside e-scrap recycling co

LED lights could offer a growing source of valuable metals, and current spending offers a look at the products that could dominate the waste stream in the future. No more CRTs: The Health Department Recycle Center in Canton, Ohio will no longer accept CRTs beginning next week,

Product lightweighting is preventing manufacturers from increasing e-scrap collection volumes in Canada's most populous province.

The weight of electronics recycled by Canadians continues to grow at a substantial pace, a report from Statistics Canada shows.

Canada's retailer trade group says New Brunswick's proposed e-scrap takeback and recycling program would hide fees from consumers and increase red tape for businesses.

A provincial regulator defended the proposed program, however, saying it follows the approach of its provincial neighbor, Quebec, and is consistent with the direction other jurisdictions in Canada are moving.

Draft regulations would require electronics manufacturers to finance the collection and recycling of e-scrap in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

The province's Environment and Local Government department is seeking public comment on the regulations. New Brunswick, with a population of 754,000 people, would be the last of Canada's Atlantic provinces to implement extended producer responsibility for electronics.

Ontario’s Environment Minister Jim Bradley last week introduced a new Waste Reduction Act and Strategy, which would make numerous changes to the province’s solid waste and recycling management, including doing away with controversial eco fees on electronics purchases.

The long-awaited Waste Reduction Act would replace the 2002 Waste Diversion Act and make some significant changes to how Ontario’s solid waste and recycling program