Seven e-scrap entities have been accused of questionable downstream practices by the Basel Action Network, after tracking devices showed they were involved in moving materials that were eventually exported to developing countries.
Named in Basel Action Network's (BAN) 
A battery stewardship group in North America has launched a campaign with information on collecting and shipping batteries safely.
Call2Recycle calls its outreach effort "
Researchers are gathering information about the global generation and flow of e-scrap, and they plan to publish their findings in November.
The project is being framed as a tool to help address several goals related to used electronics, including promoting recycling, creating refurbishment jobs, preventing illegal dumping
As New Jersey regulators implement changes to the state's electronics recycling law, they say they have no intention of creating a statewide standard plan, according to the leader of a recycling group in the state.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on July 10 held a meeting in the capital of Trenton to update st
Illinois Gov.
On average, popular phones, tablets and laptops are relatively easy to fix, but the market may be trending toward less repairable designs, a recent analysis found.
International activist group Greenpeace and U.S.-based electronics repair organization iFixit teamed up to assess the repairability of 44 smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Several years of lagging recovered material totals have led leaders of Oregon's e-scrap program to slash weight targets for manufacturers beginning next year.
The state's nine-year-old electronics extended producer responsibility program, titled Oregon E-Cycles, sets a weight-based obligation for manufacturers to collect devices each year.
The Bureau of International Recycling has begun its study on worldwide e-scrap generation and flows.
The Bureau of International Recycling's (BIR) E-Scrap Committee has started the analysis of available global e-scrap information, assisted by a consultant at the Harokopio University of Athens in Greece.
Recycling organizations will try to sell Congress on the economic and environmental benefits of the U.S. EPA's Waste Minimization and Recycling program, which is cut in President Trump's proposed budget.
An initial budget document released in March made clear that EPA would be targeted by the new administration for cuts.
Brands can't use patent law to block the resale of their products, the U.S.