After a year that recorded a notable increase in e-scrap facility battery fires, the growing hazard and ways of mitigating it received ample attention at the Recycled Materials Association's annual conference in San Diego this week.
As recycling companies seek to improve workplace safety amid an industry-wide increase in on-the-job fatalities, experts at a recent industry summit advised managers to focus their attention on — and for top executives, even to attend — the regular pre-shift safety meetings.
Two big names in the electronics repair and refurbishment space are partnering up to influence consumer and manufacturer behavior and create a world where circularity is the default.
E-scrap certification program e-Stewards endorsed an environmental benefits calculator from Bloom ESG, a London-based advisory firm, that can be used to quantify avoided carbon emissions and other benefits of e-scrap recycling and reuse.
Members of the Recycled Materials Association's electronics division were on-site for the group's recent Capitol Hill visit, where they told lawmakers how tariffs will affect electronics recovery and emphasized the importance of priority legislation.
The increasing adoption of post-consumer resin is set against a backdrop of growing public mistrust and a frequent lack of clarity, but emerging traceability tools can provide transparency to build trust with consumers as well as supply chain partners.
Data center decommissioning, right-to-repair, tariffs and the role of artificial intelligence in end-of-life product grading were hot topics during the first two days of a meeting of reverse logistics professionals in Las Vegas this week.
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool program rolled out new criteria for sustainable electronics, increasing focus on environmental and human rights requirements.
Nine workers died in U.S. materials recovery facilities in 2023 and the death rate for refuse and recyclable material collectors jumped more than 80%, according to the latest annual numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.