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New Industry Developments
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China's Green Fence Creates Plastics Bottlenecks: The global demand for recovered plastics will triple over the next eight years, but China's 'Green Fence' policy of import restrictions on scrap plastics is leading to oversupply in the U.S. market...more (Waste Management World)
...Meanwhile, China is featured as the "largest e-waste dumping site in the world" in 9 videos and an article by...more (CNN)
ISRI Study Says US E-Scrap Export Ban Would Cost Jobs and consolidate business to firms with the machinery and manpower. It will "crowd out small existing businesses and inhibit entry of newer businesses," according to a new report released by ISRI. It disputes the CAER report, claiming it relies on members' vested interests...more (ISRI)
Canada's Electronics Recycling Association is Accused of fraud, use of competitors' intellectual property, and a host of misrepresentations. Now, China has rejected ERA's containers as containing waste batteries...more (Vancouver Sun)
Wistron GreenTech to Process Batteries together with Call2Recycle. Wistron's much-anticipated entry into the electronics recycling industry...more (Call2Recycle)
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Patents and Ideas:
Recovery Method for High-Purity Platinum from complex materials, such as electronics scrap...more (Patent Application)
Recycling Kiosk to visually determine condition and authenticity of electronics by using cameras...more (Patent Application)
Systems to Track Take-Back Obligations using automated technology to identify products at end of life and also in production control and after-sales services. ..more (Springer Journal Abstracts)
Planning Acquisition, Disassembly and bulk recycling of electronics scrap to optimize capacity usage in disassembly and bulk recycling...more (Springer Journal Abstracts)
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