[caption id="attachment_14682" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Industry group ISRI said that updated import guidelines are an acknowledgement from China that scrap materials are products, not waste. | Maha Heang 245789/Shutterstock[/caption]
Chinese authorities have published updated standards for imports
[caption id="attachment_14594" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]The Basel Action Network recently publicized a Thai government decision making official a previously announced ban on e-scrap imports. | KAMONRAT/Shutterstock[/caption]
The Basel Action Network this week announced changes in an overseas
[caption id="attachment_13896" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The Basel Action Network estimates that since the EarthEye program started over a dozen customers have used the trackers. | Aunging/Shutterstock[/caption]
Samsung is deploying 40 GPS trackers a year to follow the downstream movement of scrap electronics
[caption id="attachment_16935" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock[/caption]
A major shipping line will no longer accept recovered plastic and other scrap material shipments bound for Hong Kong, wh
[caption id="attachment_13844" align="aligncenter" width="900"]The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is an international treaty governing how waste is moved around the world. | mayday6510/Shutterstock[/caption]
Multiple
[caption id="attachment_13626" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Dutch company Closing the Loop buys scrap phones from local collectors in Africa. | Photo by Closing the Loop, provided courtesy of TCO Development[/caption]
Sustainability certification organization TCO Development launched a program through which purchases of new electronics will fund e-sc
[caption id="attachment_13330" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]ITAD company EPC reported a sharp increase in demand for notebook, tablet and desktop PCs throughout the U.S. and Canada as the need to work from home grows. | Sally B/Shutterstock[/caption]
Processors across the U.S.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.
[dropcap]For[/dropcap] many operators in the world of electronics recycling, plastics have recently become a major talking point.
Before 2017, the scrap plastics that
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, speaks at the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show. | Plastics Recycling Confe
[caption id="attachment_13210" align="aligncenter" width="900"]An industry group cites experts in noting that e-waste export policy is key to stopping counterfeit electronic parts and protecting military readiness. | ThamKC/Shutterstock[/caption]
A group supporting legislation to limit overseas shipments of untested used devices praised recent U.S.
Industry group ISRI said that updated import guidelines are an acknowledgement from China that scrap materials are products, not waste. | Maha Heang 245789/Shutterstock[/caption]
Chinese authorities have published updated standards for imports 
The Basel Action Network recently publicized a Thai government decision making official a previously announced ban on e-scrap imports. | KAMONRAT/Shutterstock[/caption]
The Basel Action Network this week announced changes in an overseas
The Basel Action Network estimates that since the EarthEye program started over a dozen customers have used the trackers. | Aunging/Shutterstock[/caption]
Samsung is deploying 40 GPS trackers a year to follow the downstream movement of scrap electronics
Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock[/caption]
A major shipping line will no longer accept recovered plastic and other scrap material shipments bound for Hong Kong, wh
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is an international treaty governing how waste is moved around the world. | mayday6510/Shutterstock[/caption]
Multiple 
Dutch company Closing the Loop buys scrap phones from local collectors in Africa. | Photo by Closing the Loop, provided courtesy of TCO Development[/caption]
Sustainability certification organization TCO Development launched a program through which purchases of new electronics will fund e-sc
ITAD company EPC reported a sharp increase in demand for notebook, tablet and desktop PCs throughout the U.S. and Canada as the need to work from home grows. | Sally B/Shutterstock[/caption]
Processors across the U.S.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of E-Scrap News. 
Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, speaks at the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show. | Plastics Recycling Confe
An industry group cites experts in noting that e-waste export policy is key to stopping counterfeit electronic parts and protecting military readiness. | ThamKC/Shutterstock[/caption]
A group supporting legislation to limit overseas shipments of untested used devices praised recent U.S.