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George Hinkle has taken the reins of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ electronics division. In a recent interview, he discussed the e-scrap committee’s priorities for action, including reuse specs and prevention of battery fires. Hinkle will serve as chairman of the committee for the coming two years.

[caption id="attachment_8987" align="alignright" width="300"] Chris Brandt of BAN's EarthEye program installing a tracker in a printer.

"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.

The U.S. will enact tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products beginning July 6. Vowing retaliation, China released its own list of U.S. products to target in July. The revised U.S.

An update to this story is available here. The Basel Action Network has launched a commercial tracking service to monitor e-scrap flows, and its first customer is an OEM that was lambasted by the watchdog group over e

The organization that administers the R2 e-scrap recycling standard has elevated Corey Dehmey to the executive director role. He replaces John Lingelbach, whose exit from the group was announced earlier this year. Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) made the announcement this morning.

A $25,000 grant will help a Nebraska processor achieve R2 certification, part of a larger effort to boost e-scrap recycling capacity in the Cornhusker State. Omaha-based Sadoff E-Recycling & Data Destruction received the grant, which was funded by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and awarded by the Northeast Recycling Coun

China supplies components for a lot of equipment used in the U.S. recycling industry, meaning tariffs on Chinese imports would be felt across many recycling sectors, according to an industry association. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) submitted testimony to the U.S.

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[caption id="attachment_8732" align="alignright" width="300"] A computer tower with a tracking device provided by the Green Tracking Service (device at lower right).[/caption] A U.S. company has begun providing an e-scrap tracking service so processors and OEMs can see where their downstream vendors are sending devices.