After reviewing the validity of New York City's ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS), a judge this week repealed the controversial law less than three months after it went into effect. According to a 15-page ruling from New York State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chan, the City overlooked "abundant evidence showing a viable and growing market for not just clean EPS...

Responding to what it calls a dearth of reliable downstream processors of CRT funnel glass, the state of California will allow the lead-laden material to head to hazardous waste disposal facilities. Formally announced in an emergency regulatory action issued on Aug. 21, the decision on the part of California regulators calls on companies participating in the state's electronics recycling program...

The leader of Sims Recycling Solutions says the e-Stewards certification no longer makes business sense for the major electronics processor. He added that recent e-Stewards decisions on prison labor and CRT glass have started to "water down" the standard. SRS, the e-scrap wing of publicly traded Sims Metal Management, had all nine of its U.S. processing facilities certified to the...

Flat-panel display processor 3S International has closed its operations in Illinois and Michigan and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with hopes of reorganizing the company.In a statement sent to E-Scrap News, CEO Joe Yob said bankruptcy will "allow 3S to strategically reposition the company to better meet the current and future needs for the recycling of panel displays and other...

Lagging redemption rates in Oregon may spell the introduction of a 10-cent deposit on most beverage containers sold in the Beaver State by 2017. The latest numbers from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) show Oregonians redeemed 68 percent of covered containers in 2014. That's down from 2013's redemption rate of 71 percent. Under state law, consecutive years with redemption...

Electronic Recyclers International has teamed up with iFixit to move further into reselling working parts and pieces of devices instead of shredding them. First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the partnership will see ERI's operations across the country set aside large quantities of tested and working parts for iFixit to resell online alongside its traditional offering of tools and...

Textiles-from-plastics brand Repreve has announced a $10 million expansion of its existing PET bottle recycling plant to help meet increasing demand around the globe. The company's 50,000-square-foot recycling center in Yadkinville, N.C. will more than double in size as a result of the investment. According to a press release from Repreve's publicly traded parent company, Unifi, the site will expand...

A bill that's passed through North Carolina's Senate would repeal the state's electronics recycling program. House Bill 765, which passed North Carolina's Senate by a vote of 31-17 last week and aims to cut a number of regulatory provisions beyond those dealing with e-scrap, now sits in the House Committee for the Environment. The 23-member committee is expected to meet...

An appeals court has let a long-simmering lawsuit against the Basel Action Network go forward. In a decision reached on June 29, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago affirmed an earlier ruling in granting Intercon Solutions the right to have its defamation case against the watchdog group heard by a state court. BAN had been hoping to...

A team of academics has taken issue with a number of key statements on e-scrap exports and generation recently made by the United Nations Environment Programme.In a post on a scholarly waste and pollution blog called Discard Studies, researchers Josh Lepawsky, Joshua Goldstein and Yvan Schulz make the case that a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this spring...