A recent study found thermal events occurring at all stages of the WEEE collection and processing chain. | nongningstudio/Shutterstock[/caption]
A new report notes more and more fires are breaking out in electronics collection and processing facilities
The research project focused on recovering cobalt, tantalum, neodymium, tungsten and gallium, materials that were chosen due to their relative scarcity and cost.
The fund will provide nearly $6.2 million in interest-free loans to e-scrap processing facilities and over $740,000 in grants to nonprofit electronics reuse organizations. | science photo/Shutterstock[/caption]
A producer-backed group in the U.K.
Wisetek is assembling ventilators at its facility in Cork, Ireland. | Patrik Slezak/Shutterstock[/caption]
An Irish electronics recycling firm has converted its refurbishing line to focus on assembling ventilators.
A European Commission plan calls for right-to-repair measures to be introduced by 2021. | Poravute Siriphiroon/Shutterstock[/caption]
European lawmakers this week committed to enshrine greater device repairability in law, with their adoption of a Circular Economy Ac
Mitsubishi described the acquisition as part of its plan to implement a variety of sustainability initiatives by 2030. | IgorGolovniov/Shutterstock[/caption]
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has purchased two European plastics recycling companies focusing on engineered plastics, bri
The resolution was approved by lawmakers on a vote of 582 to 40. | PP Photos/Shutterstock[/caption]
European lawmakers voted to require a single charger for all mobile devices.
Sims Recycling Solutions reported tighter profit margins at its continental Europe facilities earlier this year and in 2018. | Aleksandr Grechanyuk/Shutterstock[/caption]
In a deal worth tens of millions of dollars, Sims
E-plastics have been heavily impacted by market shifts in the past two years. | myibean/Shutterstock[/caption]
A European effort is calling on consumers to push manufacturers into using recycled plastic in new electronics as a way to build end markets for the challenging mater
Discarded electronics are estimated to reach 122 million short tons per year around the globe by 2050. | Petra Nowack/Shutterstock[/caption]
A United Nations-backed study predicts massive growth in global tonnages of end-of-life electronics, and it examines how the recycling sector can bes