Abandoned CRTs have turned up in Arizona, Colorado and Maryland warehouses.  Falling prices, limited refining capacity and thinly-capitalized dealers create a grim picture...more (Resource Recycling)  Read Our New Blog!

Court Upholds Intercon Suit vs. BAN:  Intercon will seek damages for defamation, saying BAN confused Intercon with another company when BAN claimed Intercon illegally shipped e-waste to China. (BAN's countersuit was dismissed). The case will be heard September 9...more (Waste & Recycling)  

Cities Ban Cell-Phone Kiosks to block thieves from fencing stolen electronics.  Despite security measures, kiosks remain an easy way to move stolen property...more (The Press-Enterprise)

China's E-Way Forward in managing 20% annual internal e-waste growth and increased imports through Hong Kong, its "Circular Economy" and incentive programs, formal v. informal processing, new pilot programs, laws and regulatory enforcement are covered in...more (OurWorld 2.0)

New Veolia Plant in Massachusetts will separate fluorescent lamps into core components, process batteries and ballast and reclaim mercury.  It hopes to recover rare-earth elements from phosphor powder...more (Recycling International)

Technical Articles

Effectiveness of Licensing E-waste disposal: After China and India banned improper recycling it spread to other places. Governments changed policies to require licensing, but it works only if disposers sell E-waste to licensees. Results show international E-waste trade should not be banned.  We provide an alternative solution...more (Elsevier)

Heavy Metal in Indoor Dust measured at recycling sites showed ferromagnetic metal pollutants from e-waste recycling predominate. There are significant correlations between magnetic carriers in the dusts and heavy metals, especially Cd, Co, Fe, Ni and Zn...more (Elsevier)

Patents and Applications

Kiosk for Reselling Electronic Devices in compliance with second hand dealer laws includes a network and a server with a database, an external camera, a fingerprint reader and an identification (card) reader...more (Patent Application)

Method to Extract Lithium from the positive electrode material of a lithium ion battery.  Uses simple equipment without a cumbersome process...more (Patent Application)

Non-Contact Testing of Electronic Components printed on a substrate. Test circuits are all optical, used in real time and minimize the production of unusable scrap...more (Patent Applicaton)

Precious Metal Assay Device achieves a professionally accurate gold assay without damaging assay material. Device is stable, rugged and easily maintained...more (Improvement) 

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