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The amount of material Oregonians disposed of in 2022 dropped significantly from the year before, mainly due to fewer building-destroying wildfires, and electronics made up only 0.4% of the recycled materials.

Goodwill, the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center and e-scrap processor Reworld have added 42 free recycling sites throughout Pennsylvania, a state with a long history of electronics recycling access challenges.

AT&T is looking to give customers another place to recycle old electronics, even those without trade-in value. 

An update to Wisconsin's e-scrap recycling program will modify how manufacturer's targets are set and expand what the program covers, among other changes.

Curbside e-scrap pickup is back for some Staten Island residents after two council members forged a partnership with Where-to-Turn. 

ERI is collaborating with several other organizations to bring a training program for e-scrap recycling to its Indiana facility. 

New York City residents on Staten Island lost the option to have e-scrap picked up curbside after the mayor made large-scale budget cuts. 

Baltimore County, Md., is working with Securis to expand its e-scrap recycling program. 

Two municipalities in Florida have sidestepped sending household e-scrap to their contracted processor for recycling and are instead hauling material to a waste-to-energy plant. 

A Portland, Ore. commissioner announced the city would be donating its old computers to nonprofit Free Geek to be redistributed, urging other businesses to do so too.