A lot of British households are watching the World Cup on brand new TV sets, which means a robotic disassembly system has been working overtime to recycle their old ones.
Waste management company Veolia UK reports the number of old flat-panel TVs entering its Shropshire, England recycling facility has skyrock
This story has been updated.
Sims Recycling Solutions has installed two new sorting lines at its large processing facility in the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), the electronics recycling arm of publicly traded scrap metals giant Sims Metal Management, install
Ronin8's sonic separation equipment.[/caption]
Ronin8, which uses sonic technology to process low-grade circuit boards into a higher-value, smelter-ready material, is looking to scale up operations.
Ronin8 is phasing out pilot operations at its plant in Richmond, British Columbia.
A California-based company has opened its second IT asset disposition processing center in Canada.
Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services announced the opening of the facility in Vancouver, B.C.
A company that has developed a bio-metallurgical recovery process for e-scrap is seeking investors to help the business scale up its operations, after reporting successful tests of the process.
New Zealand-based Mint Innovation is working to build its first metals recovery pilot plant in Auckland.
A computer tower with a tracking device provided by the Green Tracking Service (device at lower right).[/caption]
A U.S. company has begun providing an e-scrap tracking service so processors and OEMs can see where their downstream vendors are sending devices.
Curbside garbage and recycling audits show the amount of e-scrap improperly disposed by New York City households has dropped substantially in recent years.
The New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) 
The processing line at Proambi's facility in Mexico, photo courtesy of Salvador Río[/caption]
Mexico may be America's neighbor to the south, but in some ways, the e-scrap ecosystems in the two nations are worlds apart.
A much-publicized legal battle over the limits of copyright when it comes to computer refurbishment appears to have reached a conclusion, with a California e-scrap operator headed to prison.
In June of last year, Clifford Eric Lundgren