Basel Action Network, which has been using GPS trackers to follow used electronics, today named six companies it says were involved in shipping scrap printers and LCD monitors to Asia.
The Seattle-based advocacy group today
Dell has recycled e-plastics from end-of-life devices back into new electronics for years. Now, the global technology company is doing the same thing for gold.
Dell announced it has established an industry-first closed-loop supply chain for the precious metal.
A plasma e-scrap furnace malfunction at an Arkansas smelting operation two years ago has spurred a $10.5 million insurance lawsuit against an equipment manufacturer that provided certain components.
BlueOak Arkansas, which started up a commercial-scale e-scrap smelting operation at its Osceola, Ark.
A recent government approval is expected to bring Iron Mountain, which is already a giant in the world of data storage and destruction, further into the IT asset disposition business.
Iron Mountain, a publicly traded company headquartered in Boston,
Two electronics recycling companies recently ended disputes with California regulators that centered on the handling of metal-laden dust from e-scrap shredders.
A Midwest e-scrap processor has expanded into a larger facility based on recent growth, particularly on the reuse side of the business.
Lafayette, Ind.-based Oscar Winski Company has moved its electronics recycling division, OWCe, into an expanded space alongside the company’s logistics operation.
A Colorado-based nonprofit electronics recycling organization is working to spread its operational model around the country, and it recently received a grant to help.
Blue Star Recyclers received a $50,000 grant from Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation to support the recycling
The parent of Regency Technologies is consolidating two northern Ohio facilities into a massive new location that’s under construction near Cleveland.
The facility will be sited in Stow, Ohio and will be used by Regency parent company Reserve Management Group (RMG) for a variety of scrap operations.
A group of Taiwanese developers has unveiled a recycling system to recover glass, indium and liquid crystal from LCD screens.
The system, which was announced this week by the Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is said to separate liquid-crystal display (LCDs) screens into the th
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Experts predict large-format lithium-ion batteries will show up more regularly in the scrap electronics stream in the coming years, and a Canadian company is looking at the trend as an opportunity.
Large lithium-ion batteries in particular are expected to grow more prevalent as e