U.S. Military Starts E-Scrap Project

Last year the White House published, “Building resilient supply chains, revitalizing American manufacturing, and fostering broad-based growth,” a report calling for investments to be made in the recovery of rare earth elements in e-scrap. Recent years have seen many supply chain issues, leading to shortages of certain materials, and the U.S. military has kickstarted a…

China’s Import Policy Concerns U.S. Officials

In August, China officials alerted the World Trade Organization (WTO) of plans to prohibit some twenty-four types of materials from entering the country. These materials include one grade of unsorted paper, several types of used textiles, several types of post-consumer plastic scrap, as well as several types of used textile and metal slags containing vanadium.…