by Bob Hollis | Jun 30, 2021 | News Feeds, RMDZ, RMDZ News, Waste360
With proposed right-to-repair laws and increased government regulation, manufacturers may be forced to make the spare parts needed to fix their products for electronic devices, furniture and medical devices. Right-to-repair activists say some consum Read...
by Bob Hollis | Jun 29, 2021 | #ResourceRecycling, RMDZ, RMDZ News
A committee at Sustainable Electronics Recycling International gave the green light to move forward with adding solar panels to the R2 certification standard. The R2 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Wednesday, May 19 voted to begin the process of adding … Read...
by Bob Hollis | Jun 28, 2021 | #ResourceRecycling, RMDZ, RMDZ News
California officials say they will have enough money to continue running the state’s e-scrap recycling program without hiking fees. Staff at the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) are proposing to maintain at current levels the fees...
by Bob Hollis | Jun 27, 2021 | #ResourceRecycling, RMDZ, RMDZ News
In some ways, solar panels present some of the same recycling challenges as old TVs. They carry a high cost to recycle properly, have limited commodity value and contain hazardous metals. At the same time, relatively few downstream processors recycle … Read...
by Bob Hollis | Jun 26, 2021 | RMDZ, RMDZ News, Waste360
Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging collection and recycling is unlikely to Read...
