Collection

TerraCycle US's Regulated Waste recycling business continued to experience financial losses last year, but they weren't as bad as the year before.

ERI facilities in California and Indiana will sort and ship out used batteries as part of a nationwide mixed-battery collection program from stewardship organization Call2Recycle.

Fewer devices were sitting unused in Wisconsin homes in 2021 than three years prior, a report found.

E-scrap collection on the Big Island of Hawaii is suspended due to a lack of funds, but the program will be redesigned and opened again later this year.

Some of the technology world's big names are funding an electronics collection effort in Denver, trying to boost recycling rates.

Despite most countries having at least some e-scrap-related legislation, recycling rates in 13 Latin American countries are very low, at just under 3%, a U.N. report found.

As COVID-19 took hold and e-scrap collection opportunities were canceled, the public began trashing a lot more of their electronics in Washington state, according to recently reported figures.

TerraCycle has launched collection services that will feed businesses' used electronics to Clean Earth for data destruction and recycling. Clean Earth also recently announced its own mail-in service.

An $8.4 million, multi-year project in Europe found that providing incentives directly to consumers can impact the recycling rates of mobile devices.

Canadian e-scrap and ITAD company eCycle Solutions has opened a recycling location in Welland, Ontario, close to Niagara Falls.