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By the end of 2016, IMS Electronics Recycling will cut in half the number of processing facilities it operates.

The company confirmed to E-Scrap News that it will cease operations in Atlanta and Vancouver, Wash. this year. The Atlanta location will end operations Oct.

The e-Stewards standard and certification program announced details today on a plan to regularly use GPS tracking devices as an enforcement and verification tool.

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The U.S. EPA developed its 2006 rule on CRT management to help divert the lead-containing glass away from disposal and toward recycling. But a decade later, with the value of recovered glass a negative, the U.S.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has released its annual Scrap Yearbook, a statistical and comprehensive publication regarding the U.S.

Starting next month, $3 million worth of grants will be available to local governments in New York that are paying to recycle electronics.

The repair site iFixit has offered kudos to Apple's newest phone for ease of battery access and criticism for the addition of tri-point screws.

The electronics repair group recently executed a tear-down to determine how easy Apple's new mobile p

An upcoming update to the RIOS certification will include stronger health and safety requirements and a greater focus on the global recycling industry.

The Global Recycling Standards Organization, home of the RIOS standard (Recycling Industry Operating Standard) announced that licensed cop

The Basel Action Network has released a follow-up report to its e-scrap tracking study, detailing which firms handled material that was ultimately exported. The Basel Action Network (BAN), founder of the e-Stewards certification, this year has released findings of its tracking project, which was conducted during 2014 and 2015.

Sales forecasts for PCs, tablets and smartphones have been released by International Data Corporation. Smartphone sales are expected to increase slightly with a year-over-year growth rate of 1.6 percent in 2016.