E Waste Reporting Articles & Analysis
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Amid a landscape seemingly marked by advancements in waste management, recent research from Material Focus paints a nuanced picture of the UK's relationship with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).Despite a reported 34% decrease since 2017 in the total number of electrical items thrown away, and a commendable 60% recycling rate for ...
REPIC was particularly interested in hearing from the Environment Audit Committee chair, Philip Dunne MP, with an update on the progress that has been made since the publication of the committee’s e-waste enquiry report. Referring to the Environmental Bill, Philip Dunne MP, confirmed that five waste streams were included ...
ByREPIC
In a report to be released on the 24th November investigating the reasons why the targets are seemingly difficult to attain the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) notes that there is a huge amount of collected WEEE that is not reported. Commissioned by the WEEE Forum to investigate, UNITAR notes that the WEEE targets will not be attained unless all actors having access ...
ByREPIC
Key members of the international e-waste sector again gathered for their annual congress in Salzburg, Austria; this year from January 17 to 20. ...
ByICM AG
The report recaps findings of the UK Trade and Investment that waste management sector was expected to grow 3.1% in 2013-14 with recovery and recycling seeing a 4% increase. Sectors such as electric and electronic waste recycling are reported to see more growth than average. Financial incentives such as Landfill Tax, combined with competitive gate fees for different treatment options, have been ...
A recent survey of businesses in France, Germany and the UK has revealed that they recycle and refurbish much of their waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). However, some of this information is not being reported under the EU’s WEEE Directive because the waste is being disposed of informally or by contractors, rather than by manufacturers who are responsible for the whole life ...
Executives should use these reports to learn how to exploit growth opportunities in the e-waste management industry and devise business strategies by understanding the trends and developments that are driving the e-waste management and recovery industry across the globe. ...
November 13 - 16, 2012, Guangzhou, China Conference, exhibition and plant tours organized by World Recycling Forum The next top quality conference regarding E-scrap recycling will take place from November 13 - 16, 2012 in exciting Guangzhou, host of the world famous Canton Fair. ...
ByICM AG
Environmental Protection Agency must institute a manifest system to track individual hazardous waste shipments of used batteries to their destination in Mexico as it does for all other types of hazardous waste. ...
The 11th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2012 will take place from January 18 – 20, 2012 in Salzburg, Austria. Over 500 experts from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present the newest information and challenges of the WEEE recycling business. The preliminary program includes sessions on: Rare earth recovery More products in more markets and ...
ByICM AG
WASHINGTON - John Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronics and e-waste, issued a statement today in response to U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s announcement earlier this week regarding the agency’s international priorities. ...
Producers of electrical and electronic equipment will no longer have to fund waste electrical and electronic equipment collections from kerbside under new amendments to the recast WEEE Directive. The long-awaited draft report from the European Parliament’s Rapporteur Karl-Heinz Florenz outlines a number of proposed changes for the WEEE industry including a 65% WEEE collection target for all ...
The report also stated that analysis of trade statistics shows “that many discarded TV sets are shipped to Africa – their low prices are an indicator that some shipments are likely to be e-waste”. The export of e-waste from the EU to African countries is prohibited, and non-governmental organisations ...
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has announced further steps to reduce bureaucracy, while still ensuring high levels of environmental protection. Changes have been put in place to how SEPA enforces three sets of regulations; the Producer Responsibility (Packaging Waste) Regulations, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE) and the Trans Frontier Shipment ...
Improving implementation and enforcement of laws on electrical and electronic equipment and cutting unnecessary administrative burden are the main objectives of the revised directives proposed by the Commission today. The directives on the collection and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment and on the restriction of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment – ...
A large amount of this waste is actually being sent over to developing countries by legitimate waste brokers and so-called recyclers in developed nations with much of the equipment coming from schools and government agencies. A new study into the export of e-waste by the Basel Action Network (BAN) has exposed some of the ...