A company that manages mobile phone take-back programs has invested more than $1 million in a new processing site and plans to hire hundreds of workers in the coming months.
Hyla Mobile has opened a 100,000-square-foot used cell phone processing facility in La Vergne, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.
The Farmers Branch, Texas-headquartered company manages phone trade-in programs
Global e-commerce site eBay is honoring a California woman who immigrated from Colombia with nothing more than a suitcase and later co-founded a successful e-scrap company.
Angie Cardona-Nelson 
A product offering from iFixit can help tackle one of the largest roadblocks to increased device repairability and refurbishment: glued-in batteries.
The adhesive removal solution comes in a small bottle with a syringe, which is used to squirt the chemical around the perimeter underneath the battery.
A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans.
The European Parliament on July 4 voted to 
On average, popular phones, tablets and laptops are relatively easy to fix, but the market may be trending toward less repairable designs, a recent analysis found.
International activist group Greenpeace and U.S.-based electronics repair organization iFixit teamed up to assess the repairability of 44 smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Whenever Apple indicates a new product release, device-recovery firms join in on the wider consumer market chatter.
Hundreds of authorized third-party repair shops around the world are set to begin using a system developed by one of the most prominent OEM brands.
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A U.S. electronics disassembly and processing outlet is expanding with a new California flagship facility, spurred by anticipated growth in the domestic electronics manufacturing industry.
Re-Teck, an IT asset disposition (ITAD) company, plans to open a new 50,000-square-foot facility in the San Francisco Bay Area in August. Its U.S.
Brands can't use patent law to block the resale of their products, the U.S.