A manufacturer has been recognized for its process that uses 100 percent post-consumer plastics from e-scrap, as well as packaging and textiles, sourced from recycling companies across the U.S.
EcoStrate recycles hard-to-recycle materials into a composite sheet, which goes into indoor and outdoor signage.
For the 21st consecutive year, Call2Recycle set a new record in its battery and cellphone collection volume last year.
More than 134,000 jobs in the U.S. are in some way supported by recycled commodities exports, according to a new analysis.
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) commissioned a study of the economic impacts of scrap recycling.
As information comes to light about widespread landfilling of CRT glass in California, electronics recycling standards R2 and e-Stewards are working to determine their next steps.
Leaders of R2 have hired an attorney to figure out whether California law is forcing firms to defy the standard's CRT glass recycling requirements.
Unlike in consumer markets, repairing CRT displays remains a common practice for the aviation industry, and a new phone's screen may look cool but it's prone to breaking.
CRT use: Although CRT devices have all but been phased out of the consumer market, CRT usage remains relatively common in cockpits of airplanes.
When investigators reported last year on how new PCs were failing to meet their stated sustainability credentials, a reoccurring problem emerged: e-plastics weren't being labeled correctly.
That's one takeaway from a series of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) 
Information technology use is changing in several key manners, and this is causing change within the electronics refurbishing and recycling sector.
An in-depth study exploring the changing materials composition of e-scrap will be discussed in a U.S. EPA webinar next week.
The analysis explored the types and compositions of electronics sold and entering the end-of-life streams each year.
Whether it's a deal on data destruction or an opportunity for extra education, multiple organizations are taking full advantage of the attention Earth Day brings to the recycling world.
Oregon regulators have fined Total Reclaim more than $160,000 for allegedly violating hazardous waste laws, but the e-scrap processor denies the allegations and has appealed the penalty.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on April 3 issued a