A committee at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has begun a project to write specifications for electronics destined for repair and reuse.
The ISRI Electronics Division's specifications committee has met to outline how it plans to proceed with writing specifications for working used electronics.
Federal prosecutors allege a computer repair and refurbishment company owner defrauded a government program to obtain numerous used devices over a decade.
Steven Mays, owner of the now-closed Mays Computers & Outdoors in Athens, Ala., was charged in June with four counts of mail fraud and one count each of wire fraud, the
Last week, viewers around the globe got an unexpected peek at how Apple instructs company technicians to dismantle mobile devices.
Consumers paid record prices for Apple's iPhone X. A recent analysis shows the refurb market is doing the same.
According to liquidation services firm B-Stock, used versions of the phone have been regularly snapped up by consumers at 85 percent of the original retail price, which was $999.
Apple has been penalized by the Australian government for attempting to mislead consumers on whether device warranties are still effective once the device has been serviced by a non-Apple-authorized repair entity.
The 
An emerging retail sales outlet for refurbished phones, tablets and laptops has raised $48 million to help it expand.
Back Market, an online marketplace that recently entered the North American market, raised the money from Paris-based investment groups.
A three-year-old French online marketplace, Back Market provides a sales outlet for refurbishing
Three companies have changed language in their product warranties that discouraged independent repairs after regulators said they may be running afoul of federal law.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in April 
Electronics repair advocates are speaking in defense of a refurb executive sentenced to prison for illegally copying Microsoft software.
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S.
An online marketplace for refurbished devices has expanded into the U.S., and company leaders are looking for refurbishers to join the platform.
Back Market does not refurbish products but rather provides a space where refurbished electronics, mostly smartphones, can be 
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