A suburban Ohio county is being pushed to depart from its long-established mixed-waste processing recycling system, after a report indicated the method was producing a recycling rate below 4 percent. Since 1993, Medina County has owned a mixed waste processing center that received all MSW from the county's roughly 175,000 residents. The facility, which had been operated by Envision Waste...

The Illinois Senate has passed a resolution pushing the Basel Action Network and the e-Stewards Leadership Council to approve a petition from Kuusakoski Recycling that would allow the firm to store treated CRT glass at a landfill and count it as recycling. The 8-page resolution, which can be viewed here, was authored by Sen. David Koehler, a Democrat, and Sen....

The White House has issued an updated executive order on federal sustainability practices that noticeably leaves out green electronics standard EPEAT. The standard helps promote the recovery and reuse of many types of devices. It remains unclear exactly why the feds made the move. Replacing a 2009 executive order "ensuring procurement preference for EPEAT registered electronic products," the White House's...

Despite a switch to single-stream collection a year ago, St. Paul, Minnesota has seen its recycling activity remain flat. The lack of growth seems to be a factor of lightweighting trends in packaging, a lack of markets for glass and continued reliance on bins. Officials in St. Paul have announced city residents recycled 20,028.6 tons of material through traditional curbside...

A Michigan e-scrap broker is facing up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 after pleading guilty to smuggling CRTs and other used electronics abroad. In an agreement reached between the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and Lip Bor Ng, also known as Paul Wu, Ng pleaded guilty to knowingly shipping containers of electronics labeled as plastics...

A year after beginning an operation to use treated CRT glass as alternative daily cover at a landfill in Illinois, Kuusakoski US says it is phasing out that approach in favor of a different strategy: storing CRT glass in a mineable cell. Kuusakoski's decision comes after its alternative daily cover (ADC) operation in Peoria, Illinois was largely resisted by state...

E-Waste Systems has closed its Geneva, New York processing facility. A significant backlog of CRTs and CRT glass is believed to be housed at the facility. The company is also being sued for failing to pay Geneva employees between mid-October and late January, according to an article in the Finger Lakes Times.The Basel Action Network also released a report on...

Carton manufacturers are reporting more Americans have access to carton recycling. According to a press release from the Carton Council, approximately 62.4 million households in the U.S. now have access to carton recycling. That total brings the access rate for the continental U.S. to 53 percent. "It is clear by our continued progress that carton recycling is becoming more mainstream...

While publicly traded waste and recycling companies had generally positive years in 2014, annual financial reports show falling commodity prices are expected to cause trouble in 2015. Casella Waste Systems Casella Waste Systems, which reported on the last eight months of 2014, grabbed revenues of $368.37 million. Casella's recycling business accounted for 9.2 percent of the sum, generating $33.74 million...

Diversified Recycling has been slammed by the Basel Action Network for allegedly sending glass to a downstream partner that dumped the material at a local landfill. The company is also accused of selling broken devices online. Following a month-long investigation of Diversified's Norcross, Georgia facility, the Basel Action Network (BAN) announced today Diversified has been suspended for two years from...