Nulife Glass, a company that built its own furnace to recycle CRT glass in the U.S., has decided to close. The firm, led by Simon Greer, struggled to clear regulatory hurdles related to its accumulation of CRT material in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Greer told E-Scrap News the company, which was originally founded in England, has nearly completed a...

A lawsuit accuses Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, Kuusakoski, and UNICOR of being responsible for a "sham recycling scheme" that led to the abandonment of over 100 million pounds of CRT material in Columbus, Ohio. The suit, filed Sept. 5 by a large real estate firm that served as the landlord for the closed CRT operation, alleges that Closed Loop,...

CRTs stockpiled in a eWaste Tech warehouse in Richmond, Va. A property owner and public waste authority are at odds over a CRT stockpile in Richmond, Va. Meanwhile, the U.S. EPA has been asked to get involved. In an email sent out last week to various government officials, Fountainhead Properties asserted that Richmond-based eWaste Tech had abandoned 285,000 pounds of...

The former leaders of CRT outlet Closed Loop Refining and Recovery have been directed by a court to pay more than $18 million for breaking the lease at the company's Columbus, Ohio headquarters and leaving behind more than 100 million pounds of CRT glass. The decision, reached Monday afternoon by Judge Michael Holbrook of the Franklin County Court of Common...

Kuusakoski U.S. will begin sending small amounts of leaded CRT glass to a smelter while utilizing non-leaded glass in an ongoing landfill construction project. The company, which has relied on treating and storing crushed CRT glass on the site of a landfill in Illinois since 2015, announced the new initiatives in a press release last week. Kuusakoski U.S. is the...

The fate of Nulife Glass is in question, with the firm halting operations as it struggles to meet regulator demands to remove CRT glass stored in warehouses. Nulife, which originally started in the U.K., began operating in the U.S. in 2013. The company opened its headquarters in Dunkirk, N.Y. and began running a CRT glass furnace last year. The company...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner will soon have to decide whether to sign off on two bills that would substantially transform the state's e-scrap program. After sending Senate Bill 1417 to the governor in late June, Illinois legislators passed a key companion piece of legislation, House Bill 1955, last week. The bill is expected to be sent to Rauner shortly. Taken...

Fearing a veto from the governor, Illinois stakeholders are attempting to iron out last-minute changes to legislation that would reshape the state's e-scrap law by requiring manufacturers to fund recycling of all covered material collected through the program. Following the successful passage of Senate Bill 1417 by both the state House and Senate late last month, lawmakers in Illinois have...

A recent decision by the Chinese government to more intensely inspect imported shipments of e-scrap and other recovered materials is here to stay, according to one international trade expert. Steve Wong, the executive president of the China Scrap Plastics Association and the leader of Hong Kong-based plastics recycling company Fukutomi Company Limited, told E-Scrap News the Chinese government is committed...

Environmental officials in Minnesota are still attempting to get MPC, once one of the largest electronics recycling companies in the Upper Midwest, to complete the cleanup of its former operation. According to officials, MPC has yet to clean out 32 semi-trailers containing intact CRTs and LCD monitors. The company closed in 2015 after receiving a $125,000 fine from the state...