by Anand | Aug 9, 2026 | Industry Best Practices, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR Right to repair laws are now enforceable for a quarter of Americans. Since 2024, eight states have enacted comprehensive consumer electronics right to repair laws, pushing coverage past one third of the population. For investment recovery teams, the practical...
by Anand | Jul 19, 2026 | Circular Economy, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR The digital product passport is a machine-readable record of what an asset is made of, how it was built, and what has happened to it since. The EU Central DPP Registry went live on 19 July 2026, and the first binding sector rule, the battery passport, lands on...
by Anand | Jul 8, 2026 | Circular Economy, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR Urban mining, the recovery of critical minerals from end-of-life equipment, has become a strategic supply chain function in 2026, not just a recycling nice-to-have. The UN counted 91 billion dollars of metals embedded in a single year of global e-waste....
by Admin | Jun 10, 2026 | Circular Economy, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR The market for used semiconductor equipment is on track to more than double, from roughly $4.55 billion in 2025 to about $10.59 billion by 2030, an 18.3% compound annual growth rate. Fab refresh cycles, the CHIPS-driven build-out, and surging AI chip demand are...
by Admin | May 26, 2026 | Circular Economy, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR The U.S. installed battery energy storage system fleet is on track to reach roughly 65 GW by the end of 2026, more than double its early-2025 level, which makes BESS end-of-life a near-term investment recovery priority, not a 2040 problem. Decommissioning a 1...
by Admin | May 23, 2026 | Circular Economy, Investment Recovery, Surplus Asset Management, SUSTAINABILITY
TL;DR Oil and gas decommissioning is a $7.5B market in 2026 growing at roughly 8% CAGR, with global liability now estimated at $311-362B — investment recovery teams own a defining slice of that conversation. Well abandonment, plug and abandonment, and pipeline...
