There are countless recyclers who offer electronic recycling services, and one of the first things you should consider is the difference between reusing and recycling. Unfortunately, the majority of e-waste organizations are mandated only to recycle electronics rather than consider the reuse potential,...
Growth in the Asia Pacific electronic waste recycling market can be attributed to the growth of the electronics usage in the region, the presence of key recyclers in the region, and regulatory compliance. The increasing electronic waste generation and stringent regulations on environmental and landfill...
and other valuable materials. Some of these products are further processed through a network of partner companies and other responsible recyclers. Electronic items processed by All Green are first evaluated to determine their most valuable, practical, and environmentally safe repurposed or aftermarket fun...
Unfortunately, a quantitative overview of WEEE plastics covering the composition of waste streams down to the product component level and describing polymer and additive concentrations, is currently lacking. This hinders policymakers and recyclers in making strategic decisions regarding WEEE plastics recycling...
Most countries with emerging economies have basic recycling processes, such as manual separation of components, crushing machines, metal separators, and compactors, and very few recyclers recover valuable components such as gold, copper, cobalt, and tin. Baldé et al. [13] and Ghosh et al. [12...
Electronics can be hazardous when disposed of improperly, and the Basel Action Network, or BAN, investigates the underground world of the e-waste trade. The nonprofit group secretly embeds trackers in discarded devices, then hands them to recyclers to see where they end up, exposing bad p...