Dive summary:

• Federal legislation that would restrict the export of electronic waste to developing countries could add up to 42,000 jobs in the U.S. according to a study done by the Coalition for American Electronics Recycling.
• The bill, which will be reintroduced in the current session of Congress, would only ban the export of unprocessed and non-working electronics and e-waste, working electronics will not be effected by the bill.
• The study estimated that processing e-waste domestically would add 21,000 jobs directly with a corresponding payroll of $772 million and another 21,000 jobs indirectly.

From the article:

“There is a lot of good work happening in communities across the U.S. to keep e-waste from going into landfills. But we need Congress to act to make sure that all of these used electronics that we bring to recycling depots and collection events actually get recycled, and not just loaded into containers for export”, said Barbara Kyle of ETBC. “And the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act would accomplish that.” ...