Have your outdated electronics taken up half of your room’s space? Perhaps they are piling up in the garage. Before you start planning to move to a large place, you might want to check out this ‘N+ew’ solution from Chilean Rodrigo Alonso. Of course, there are many recycling programs out there that will help you with your e-waste problems. But this new idea will help you to keep the memories as well.

Alonso has come up with a new way to make furniture out of all that electronic waste. Dubbed N+ew (or No More Electronic Waste), the showy seats are composed of e-wastes including circuit boards, multi-colored wires, computer components, QWERTY keyboards, and even scratched CDs.

He dumps all those stuff into a large cubic mold which is then filled with a clear epoxy resin and melted recycled aluminum to bind everything together. When it’s set, it will be polished to a high-gloss finish. Continue reading →

Several university campuses will be participating in the nationwide RecycleMania competition from Jan. 22 to March 31, an effort that encourages more than 500 participating colleges and universities across the country to promote recycling and waste reduction activities for the school’s recycling programs.

For every week during the event, the schools must report recycling and trash data. The RecycleMania staff will use this information to rank schools based on which institutions collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita and the highest rate of recycling. This rate is a combination of the trash and core recyclable materials used to determine a school’s recycling rate. Continue reading →

Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire TechTurn, Ltd. (“TechTurn”), a leading provider of electronics asset disposition (EAD) services that specializes in the processing and sale of technology devices that are returned or recycled from businesses and consumers.

TechTurn offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, including asset retirement, data wipe, asset test and diagnostics, data sanitation, and refurbishment and remarketing. With offices in Texas and Virginia, as well as partner facilities in Europe and Canada, TechTurn provides EAD services Continue reading →

Stricter rules governing the collection and disposal of electronic waste in the European Union were approved Thursday by the European Parliament.

The legislative update to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE, directive offers consumers new possibilities to return small waste items to retailers, will cut red tape for businesses and will enable better recovery of raw materials.

MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz steered the legislative update through Parliament (Photo by Pietro Naj-Oleari courtesy European Parliament)

“After difficult negotiations I am very satisfied that we viagra agreed ambitious but achievable collection rates Continue reading →

Sims Metal Management Limited, the world’s largest listed metal and electronic recycling company (SimsMM), today announced that it has made a significant minority investment in Chiho-Tiande Group Limited (CTG) (hkg:976), a Hong Kong listed and fast growing metals and electronics recycler with operations in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.

With main processing facilities in Taizhou and Ningbo, CTG is the largest mixed scrap metals importer in China and Continue reading →