24-06-2022 Business Electronics recycling Vodafone backs e-cycling in Africa one phone at a time Vodafone Germany is partnering with Dutch firm Closing the Loop (CTL) to recycle at least one million phones every year….
30-09-2021 Column Electronics recycling Wanted: new phone – but no e-waste footprint I’m currently looking for a new mobile phone. Is it me or is it getting harder and harder to pick…
23-07-2021 Electronics recycling Non-Ferrous metals recycling Phone recycling boost in France Scientists at the University of Lorraine in France have set an ambitious target of collecting 10 000 used mobile phones…
22-10-2020 Battery recycling Business High hopes for African phone battery programme Phone recycler Closing the Loop of the Netherlands has developed a pilot to ship more than five tonnes of mobile…
12-08-2020 Electronics recycling Technology news Dave the dismantler for iPhones Apple has unveiled its latest recycling innovation — a phone dismantling robot called ‘Dave’. The system was specifically designed to…
05-12-2019 Electronics recycling Non-Ferrous metals recycling Phone recycling scheme rakes in three million handhelds Telecommunications company O2 says its phone recycling programme in the UK has kept more than three million handsets from landfill…
22-07-2019 Gallery These phones were saved from the dump Dutch company Closing The Loop has set up a smartphone collection network in Africa so these once valued handhelds may…
19-07-2019 Editors’ Top Picks Electronics recycling Salvaging ‘lost phones’ from Africa’s waste graveyard Around 2 million mobile phones have been diverted from e-scrap burning operations in developing countries thanks to Closing the Loop….
16-07-2019 Editors’ Top Picks Electronics recycling Samsung makes phone recycling pact to end mobile graveyard Did you know there are already 1 billion more mobile phones in the world than people? And yet, little over…
03-05-2019 Business Editors’ Top Picks Electronics recycling Chicago one of the top 10 cities for phone recycling US consumers throw away almost 150 million mobile phones every year while no more than 20% get recycled, according to…
18-03-2019 Electronics recycling Non-Ferrous metals recycling Dallas Zoo saves the gorillas, one phone at a time With Spring upon us, nature is awakening. Dallas Zoo in the US has just welcomed its first new-born gorilla of…
