Europe

Europeans may soon have a more consistent right to repair electronics after the European Commission proposed a template for rules promoting the repair of goods. 

One of the biggest e-scrap smelters in the world boosted its consumption of scrap electronics by 14% last year, achieving the highest number in four years. 

A company commercializing its flat-panel device dismantling system in the U.S. has gone to court seeking to invalidate a competitor's patent.

A report from the United Nations on the European Union found that very few member countries are achieving their e-scrap recycling targets.

A European R&D project aims to create an AI-powered system that can detect and automatically remove batteries from e-scrap before they present fire risks at recycling facilities.

Four years of work on circular business models in the electronics sector wrapped up in mid-October, when the C-SERVEES Project gave its final report.

The European Commission is requesting feedback on draft regulations for designing mobile phones and tablets to be more environmentally friendly, including the issue of recyclability.

Nokia is adding more recycled material to some of its devices and urging customers to use its Circular subscription service to hold on to phones longer.

A report from Interpol aimed to fill in gaps in knowledge on the link between pollution crime and organized crime, digging into 27 pollution crime case studies that averaged profits of $19.6 million per case for those involved.

Vodafone and Closing the Loop have partnered together with the goal of recycling one used device from a country that lacks formal recycling capacity for every phone Vodafone sells in Germany.