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A North American recycling operation will open an e-plastics-focused facility in response to Chinese import restrictions.
BoMET Polymer will take in shredded and baled e-plastics, sort and process them, and produce a commodity-gra
With the value of e-plastics plummeting and a major export market crumbling, North American firms are scrambling to identify ways to manage the material.
Plastics from electronics have always been a 
An initiative in Europe will work to overcome obstacles to the closed-loop recycling of plastics from electronics and appliances.
The Post-Consumer High-tech Recycled Polymers for a Circular Economy (PolyCE) project will undertake various activities to strengthen the recovery of plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
An initiative funded by the federal government could help solve a key materials recovery issue in e-scrap.
The REMADE (Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions) Institute is gearing up to select its first projects to receive funding.
Chinese authorities say the country will prohibit some grades of recovered plastic and other materials from being imported by the end of 2017.
Dell has more than doubled its annual usage of e-plastics collected through its supply chain since beginning the effort two years ago, according to the electronics manufacturer's 2017 corporate responsibility report.
The company has also nearly doubled the number of devices it manufactures using recovered e-plastics content compared with a year ear
A manufacturer has been recognized for its process that uses 100 percent post-consumer plastics from e-scrap, as well as packaging and textiles, sourced from recycling companies across the U.S.
EcoStrate recycles hard-to-recycle materials into a composite sheet, which goes into indoor and outdoor signage.
This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of E-Scrap News. 
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Dell says it has consumed 50 million pounds of post-consumer plastics, including millions of pounds of resin from recovered electronics.
The Texas-based electronics giant says that as of January 2017 it met its recycled-plastics goal, which was to use 50 million pounds between fiscal year 2014 and 2020. The