[caption id="attachment_10489" align="alignright" width="334"] Artist Zayd Menk works on a model of London's Westminster area, crafted entirely from e-scrap.[/caption]
A teenage artist collaborated with a U.K.
A metals company will expand capacity at a Swedish copper smelter that consumes substantial volumes of printed circuit boards.
Sweden-headquartered Boliden announced it will invest 350 million Swedish krona (about $38.5 mill
A draft European Union law limits traces of a flame retardant in products to such a low level that it would effectively kill e-plastics recycling on the continent, two industry groups said.
The brominated flame retardant in question is called decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE).
A partnership between a processor and a prison in the U.K. is training inmates in dismantling electronics within the prison walls.
U.K. e-scrap operator Recycling Lives has set up an workshop inside HMP Dovegate, a privately run prison in Staffordshire, England.
Device scavenging is hampering formalized electronics recycling efforts in Europe, and a new study concludes there is little established processors can do to stop it.
But companies can take steps to reduce its impact on their operations, according to research from the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EER
A project in Europe seeks to scale up a new technique for recovering metals from printed circuit boards and other electronic components.
The RecEOL project, which will cost 1.4 million euro (about $1.6 million), will use two patented recovery processes developed in Ireland.
A lot of British households are watching the World Cup on brand new TV sets, which means a robotic disassembly system has been working overtime to recycle their old ones.
Waste management company Veolia UK reports the number of old flat-panel TVs entering its Shropshire, England recycling facility has skyrock
"Global Dispatch" is a new semi-regular column in E-Scrap News that is contributed by leaders from the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) initiative, which is hosted by the United Nations University (UNU).
As the business of electronics recovery becomes increasingly international, one challenge for the industry is making sure the developing world has a voice in the conversation.
An emerging retail sales outlet for refurbished phones, tablets and laptops has raised $48 million to help it expand.
Back Market, an online marketplace that recently entered the North American market, raised the money from Paris-based investment groups.
A three-year-old French online marketplace, Back Market provides a sales outlet for refurbishing
This story has been updated.
Sims Recycling Solutions has installed two new sorting lines at its large processing facility in the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), the electronics recycling arm of publicly traded scrap metals giant Sims Metal Management, install
Artist Zayd Menk works on a model of London's Westminster area, crafted entirely from e-scrap.[/caption]
A teenage artist collaborated with a U.K.
A metals company will expand capacity at a Swedish copper smelter that consumes substantial volumes of printed circuit boards.
Sweden-headquartered Boliden 
A draft European Union law limits traces of a flame retardant in products to such a low level that it would effectively kill e-plastics recycling on the continent, two industry groups said.
The brominated flame retardant in question is called decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE).
A partnership between a processor and a prison in the U.K. is training inmates in dismantling electronics within the prison walls.
U.K. e-scrap operator Recycling Lives has set up an workshop inside HMP Dovegate, a privately run prison in Staffordshire, England.
Device scavenging is hampering formalized electronics recycling efforts in Europe, and a new study concludes there is little established processors can do to stop it.
But companies can take steps to reduce its impact on their operations, according to research from the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EER
A project in Europe seeks to scale up a new technique for recovering metals from printed circuit boards and other electronic components.
The RecEOL project, which will cost 1.4 million euro (about $1.6 million), will use two patented recovery processes developed in Ireland.
A lot of British households are watching the World Cup on brand new TV sets, which means a robotic disassembly system has been working overtime to recycle their old ones.
Waste management company Veolia UK reports the number of old flat-panel TVs entering its Shropshire, England recycling facility has skyrock
An emerging retail sales outlet for refurbished phones, tablets and laptops has raised $48 million to help it expand.
Back Market, an online marketplace that recently entered the North American market, raised the money from Paris-based investment groups.
A three-year-old French online marketplace, Back Market provides a sales outlet for refurbishing
This story has been updated.
Sims Recycling Solutions has installed two new sorting lines at its large processing facility in the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), the electronics recycling arm of publicly traded scrap metals giant Sims Metal Management, install