A United Nations-backed study on global e-scrap generation and recovery suggests the U.S. recycling rate for end-of-life electronics and appliances sits at about 15 percent. An analysis of the method used to arrive at that figure, however, raises questions about its accuracy.Billed as "the first comprehensive assessment" of e-scrap volumes throughout the world, the United Nations University-authored Global E-Waste Monitor 2014 estimates...

New York City has unveiled a multi-pronged plan to divert all its waste from landfills and incineration by 2030. The plan, included in Mayor Bill de Blasio's OneNYC report, calls on the the nation's largest city to expand its current organics collection program and provide single-stream recycling collection service to all residents by 2020. It also proposes a pay-as-you-throw program,...

Minnesota-based Materials Processing LLC has been fined $125,000 for storing 2,500 tons of CRT glass in more than 100 semi-trailers around the Twin Cities. The company also recently closed its dual-certified Philadelphia facility, E-Scrap News has learned.According to a press release from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, "crushed" leaded glass belonging to Materials Processing LLC (MPC) was found in 128...

Nulife Glass has officially opened its second U.S. facility and says it will take a year for the Virginia operation to start smelting leaded glass. Replete with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a video message delivered by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Nulife's Bristol, Virginia location marked its first day of business on April 9. It is the U.K.-based company's second U.S....

A ruling will allow the City of Indianapolis to move ahead with controversial plans for a mixed-waste processing facility to recover recyclables. A lawsuit that challenged those plans was dismissed April 6 by Marion County Judge Cynthia Ayers. The ruling was first reported on by the Indianapolis Business Journal. Indianapolis' mixed-waste strategy includes a 14-year contract with waste-to-energy company Covanta....

Environmental officials in Pennsylvania say manufacturers aren't paying enough to ensure collected electronics are getting recycled. "The issue here is that the reimbursements being provided by manufacturers are not aligning with the actual costs to recycle the items," Amanda Whitman, spokesperson for the Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), told E-Scrap News.Under Pennsylvania's e-scrap program, which went into full effect...

Millions of pounds of CRT devices abandoned by Utah's Stone Castle Recycling continue to plague local communities. According to a pair of articles appearing April 5 in the Salt Lake Tribune, six former locations of Stone Castle remain piled high with CRT devices. Company CEO Anthony Stoddard "has not paid for any of his defunct recycling centers or their cleanup,"...

Millions of pounds of CRT devices abandoned by Utah's Stone Castle Recycling continue to plague local communities.According to a pair of articles appearing April 5 in the Salt Lake Tribune, six former locations of Stone Castle remain piled high with CRT devices. Company CEO Anthony Stoddard "has not paid for any of his defunct recycling centers or their cleanup," the newspaper states.Stone Castle...

Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has fined plastics-to-oil company Agilyx for improper storage and labeling of hazardous waste. The company has requested a contested case hearing with the DEQ. The fine, totaling $46,500, stems from a September 2014 visit to the 701 N. Hunt St. Wastech facility operated by Agilyx in Portland, Oregon. The site has been owned by...

Two bills introduced by Rhode Island lawmakers suggest the possibility of the state putting end-of-life product management duties onto the shoulders of packaging producers. House Bill 5508 (HB 5508), introduced on Feb. 12, calls on packaging producers to develop a plan to fund the recycling of at least 80 percent of packaging sold in the state by 2020. House Bill...