[caption id="attachment_5199" align="alignright" width="200"] Biju Nair, HYLA Mobile[/caption]
If you're reading this publication, you are well aware of the ultra-competitive nature of electronics recycling.
Growing volumes of Nigerian e-scrap coincide with an evolving processor field, and port workers will have an early vote on a labor contract that could bring some stability to West Coast exports.
Remote recycling: Between its small population and its location on an island, Wrangell, Alaska faces challenges in recycling electronics, to the point that some residents
Apple envisions a future in which it sources all minerals in its products from recovered electronics, according to the company's recently released environmental responsibility report.
The report, released last week, describes the compa
Getting old mobile devices out of Canadians' junk drawers and into the recycling stream may be a lucrative challenge for the e-scrap industry, a survey suggests.
According to research on the Canadian market, 62 percent of survey respondents said they had at least one old phone in storage, up from 48 percent the year before.
In 2016, respondents a
User-repair champion iFixit has released four new teardown guides in recent weeks, showing consumers the inner workings of a new set of devices.
The teardown manuals assign a repairability score on a 1 to 10 scale.
The largest probe to date of used devices supposedly scrubbed of their data found that 40 percent still retained some amount of personal information.
Conducted by the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID), the study examined a random sample of 258 smartphones, tablets and hard drives.
Consumers in China hold onto their old mobile phones for an average of two years after replacing them, and flame retardants in e-plastics show up in recycled products.
China: Less than 10 percent of mobile phones no longer in use are recycled by Chinese citizens each year.
The world's two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier.
But, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), overall smartphone shipments rose over the previous year, thanks to substantial increases from Chinese manufacturers.
Overall, 2016 saw about 1.47 billion smartphones shipped worldwide, I
An Indian teenager begins collecting e-scrap after becoming sick from a nearby burning site, and collection programs get off the ground in the nations of Georgia and Kenya.
Kenya: An e-scrap collection center will be established in the North Rift region of Kenya, a country that has more than 20 million electronic device users,
Biju Nair, HYLA Mobile[/caption]
If you're reading this publication, you are well aware of the ultra-competitive nature of electronics recycling.
Growing volumes of Nigerian e-scrap coincide with an evolving processor field, and port workers will have an early vote on a labor contract that could bring some stability to West Coast exports.
Remote recycling: Between its small population and its location on an island, Wrangell, Alaska faces challenges in recycling electronics, to the point that some residents
Apple envisions a future in which it sources all minerals in its products from recovered electronics, according to the company's recently released environmental responsibility report.
The 
Getting old mobile devices out of Canadians' junk drawers and into the recycling stream may be a lucrative challenge for the e-scrap industry, a survey suggests.
According to research on the Canadian market, 62 percent of survey respondents said they had at least one old phone in storage, up from 48 percent the year before.
In 2016, respondents a
User-repair champion iFixit has released four new teardown guides in recent weeks, showing consumers the inner workings of a new set of devices.
The teardown manuals assign a repairability score on a 1 to 10 scale.
The largest probe to date of used devices supposedly scrubbed of their data found that 40 percent still retained some amount of personal information.
Conducted by the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID), the study examined a random sample of 258 smartphones, tablets and hard drives.
Consumers in China hold onto their old mobile phones for an average of two years after replacing them, and flame retardants in e-plastics show up in recycled products.
China: Less than 10 percent of mobile phones no longer in use are recycled by Chinese citizens each year.
The world's two largest smartphone brands, Samsung and Apple, shipped fewer devices in 2016 than one year earlier.
But, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), overall smartphone shipments rose over the previous year, thanks to substantial increases from Chinese manufacturers.
Overall, 2016 saw about 1.47 billion smartphones shipped worldwide, I