[caption id="attachment_16910" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Grover's expansion to the U.S. comes shortly after news that it received $1 billion from a variety of investors. | Courtesy of Grover[/caption]
Device subscription provider Grover will expand its footprint into North America.
[caption id="attachment_16836" align="aligncenter" width="900"]USB-C is already widely used around the world, but micro-USB continues to be used, and Apple uses its own Lightning port. | Primakov / Shutterstock[/caption]
The European Commission is asking for regulations forcing mobile device manufacturers to
[caption id="attachment_16790" align="aligncenter" width="980"]The company framed its expansion as part of a push to increase the U.K.'s e-scrap recycling rate. | Courtesy of N2S[/caption]
N2S, an ITAD company based in Suffolk, England, will open two new processing locations and will expand an existing site during the coming year.
The compa
[caption id="attachment_11503" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Grover offers a wide range of devices available for lease by consumers, including computers, smartphones, drones, gaming devices, and many more. | Micolas / Shutterstock[/caption]
Grover, a European company that provides subscription acce
[caption id="attachment_15973" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]During COVID-19, collection of electronics and electrical appliances has increased markedly in Ireland. | raigvi / Shutterstock[/caption]
Officials predict most EU countries will fall short of their e-scrap recycling targets, Ireland sees a surge in re
[caption id="attachment_15315" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]A 100,000-square-foot facility in Spain will have the capacity to process more than 50 million pounds of e-plastics per year. | sonsart/Shutterstock[/caption]
Spanish plastics recycling operation Fosimpe will enter the mixed-plastics processing
[caption id="attachment_15527" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Europe has seen a number of electronics recycling newsworthy events recently. | sasirin pamai / Shutterstock[/caption]
Right-to-repair legislation now covers TVs across the European Union, and the U.K.
[caption id="attachment_15325" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]France has begun requiring manufacturers to label their electronic products with a repairability score. | S.Dashkevych/Shutterstock[/caption]
France has started requiring electronics OEMs to calculate and disclose repairability scores to consumers, and off
[caption id="attachment_2486" align="aligncenter" width="800"]European trends suggest that end consumers are becoming more open to buying used electronics. | MaxFrost/Shutterstock[/caption]
With OEMs struggling to produce and ship new electronics during coronavirus-triggered shutdowns, a new willingness to buy refurbished devices has sprouted in Europe, according