European Smelters Define WEEE Standards. Aurubis, Boliden, Umicore and Glencore, working with the European Electronics Recyclers Association, establish the WEEE end-processing standard for final processing of obsolete electronics. (Recycling Today)

Best Buy Recycles 1 Billion Lbs. of E-Waste in 6 years at its 1400 retail stores. Based on its market survey, it set a new recycling goal of 2 billion lbs. of consumer electronics and large appliances.by 2020. (It will begin helping to recycle large TVs and appliances)...(Best Buy)     

ecoATM Expects to Collect 2 Million Lbs. of mobile phones, tablets, devices and accessories in next 3 years. A brand of Outerwall Inc, ecoATM has 1,100 kiosk, located in shopping malls and retailers. 75% of collected devices are reused. (3BL Media)

Sims  Is Expanding Its Information Technology Asset Disposition and recycling service. Recognizing the importance of ITAD services, it will provide a uniform model for customers with multiple locations. (Waste 360)

EPA Gives First Sustainable Materials Management Electronics Challenge Awards, with Champion awards to Samsung, Sprint, Dell and Best Buy. (USEPA)

Sanitizing Solid State Drives is complicated by inconsistencies among SSDs, but forensic grade sanitization is possible...(SDB Magazine) 

NAID Modifies Security Certification Program.  It will now provide recyclers' certification and audit reports and verify employee security training directly to clients...(SDB Magazine)

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Toxic Metals To Which E-Waste Recycling Exposes Workers, Study in Sweden shows high airborne exposure to chromium, cobalt, indium, lead and Mercury. (Julander et al)

Profitability of Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries depends on chemistries in waste stream range from $860/ ton for LiMn2)4 cathode batteries to $8900 for LiCoO2 cathode batteries. (Wang, Gaustad et al)

Sieving and Washing Reduces Heavy Metals Residues in output streams from dismantling WEEE before recycling. (Yu-Yang Long et al)