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Best Buy has announced it will begin charging for TVs and computer monitors customers bring into the company's stores for recycling.

The changes, which end the retailer's long-running free recycling services for TVs and computer monitors, were explained in a

Rhode Island is the latest state to report it is grappling with a shortfall in funding for a manufacturer-backed electronics recycling program.

According to a state recycling official, between September and December of 2015, a significant number of collection sites throughout the Ocean State closed down after manufacturers met the

A bill overhauling New Jersey's e-scrap law is headed to Gov. Chris Christie, but the recycling industry isn't sure whether he'll sign it.

"There is really no way of knowing which way the governor will go," said Marie Kruzan, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR), one of the bill's supporters. "We all knew probably the hardest thing is getting it through the governor."

Participants of a webinar this week spoke openly about two particularly contentious issues facing CRT glass management: downstream capacity and manufacturer funding. The webinar, hosted by the Northeast Recycling Council's State Ele

Universal Recycling Technologies has reached a settlement with the state of New Hampshire over hazardous waste violations identified in 2012. The fine, announced this week and totaling $200,000, stems from a handful of inf

Nulife Glass says testing is underway on its New York CRT glass recycling furnace and that another operation in Virginia will get up and running in 2016. The U.K.-based company reports its Dunkirk, N.Y. furnace began to heat up Dec. 15 and is currently undergoing tests. “We’re very excited to get that done.

A bill that would reshape New Jersey's e-scrap program was passed late last week by members of the state's General Assembly.

The vote of 46-18 sets up a January vote in the Senate on a corresponding version of the legislation.

New Jersey lawmakers will decide today whether to move a bill that would beef up the state's e-scrap program out of committee and onto the General Assembly floor for a vote.

The eight-member Assembly Appropriations Committee is expected to convene this afternoon to discuss the merits of

Most e-scrap leaving U.S. shores is reused in developing countries, not dumped, an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries official said.

Scott Horne, counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and a longtime international trade expert, talked with E-Scrap News about what he said are misconceptions about e-scrap exports.

After a long-simmering defamation lawsuit was dismissed this month, the Basel Action Network has gone on the offensive. A report released by BAN today indicates Intercon Solutions, a Chicago-area processor that appears to be inactive, exported at least 167 containers of scrap material to Hong Kong and other Asian ports between 2010 and 2011.

The new allegations, which build on BAN's initial export charges against Intercon, suggest Intercon's activity was "likely in contravention of international, Chinese and U.S. law," the group claims.