The International Electrotechnical Commission in recent months launched a process to create a worldwide e-scrap management standard. IEC, a Geneva-based nonprofit membership organization that focuses on industry standardization in electrical and electronic goods, last fall wrote about the project, which …
For one scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, moving the needle on plastic recovery is analogous to stopping the spread of COVID-19. In both cases, many minds must come together. “The COVID vaccine came about in one year because the whole …
A federal lawmaker has introduced legislation requiring electronics manufacturers to provide resources facilitating independent device repair. Repair advocates say it’s the first such bill to hit the national stage. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., on June 17 introduced H.R. 4006, a …
The U.S. waste-management industry has become a darling of environmentally minded investors for its work in recycling trash and harvesting gases from landfills as an alternative fuel. Source: Methane menace: Aerial survey spots ‘super-emitter’ landfills | Reuters Read More…
With proposed right-to-repair laws and increased government regulation, manufacturers may be forced to make the spare parts needed to fix their products for electronic devices, furniture and medical devices. Right-to-repair activists say some consum … Read More…
A committee at Sustainable Electronics Recycling International gave the green light to move forward with adding solar panels to the R2 certification standard. The R2 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Wednesday, May 19 voted to begin the process of adding …
California officials say they will have enough money to continue running the state’s e-scrap recycling program without hiking fees. Staff at the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) are proposing to maintain at current levels the fees consumers …
In some ways, solar panels present some of the same recycling challenges as old TVs. They carry a high cost to recycle properly, have limited commodity value and contain hazardous metals. At the same time, relatively few downstream processors recycle …
Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging collection and recycling is unlikely to … Read More…
In this episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Joshua Baca, VP of plastics at the American Chemistry Council (ACC). ACC is the U.S.’ largest trade association representing the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry; it aims to d Read …