As information comes to light about widespread landfilling of CRT glass in California, electronics recycling standards R2 and e-Stewards are working to determine their next steps. Leaders of R2 have hired an attorney to figure out whether California law is forcing firms to defy the standard's CRT glass recycling requirements. Meanwhile, e-Stewards is pushing for additional disposal regulations in the...

Markets and regulations are forcing companies active in the nation’s largest state electronics recycling program to landfill CRT glass. The move is legal, but it’s raising difficult questions for the many processors that have publicly vowed to avoid disposal. For instance, visitors to the website of processor e-Recycling of California are told that "leaded glass is refined to make new CRTs...

A Virginia-based processor has run into CRT glass management challenges in the wake of the collapse of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery. The company, eWaste Tech Systems, was founded in 2012 and sent CRT glass to the Columbus, Ohio headquarters of Closed Loop until last year. Closed Loop, which billed itself as a downstream recycling outlet for leaded glass, shuttered...

This story originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The first thing that comes up in any conversation about e-plastics is the inherent complexity of the stream. The resins in question, the downstream markets for the material and the way plastics are used in today’s electronic devices –...

This story originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   The first thing that comes up in any conversation about e-plastics is the inherent complexity of the stream. The plastics in question, the downstream markets, and the way the materials are used in today’s electronic devices – they’re all marked...

New York City officials have announced plans to make the Staten Island curbside e-scrap recycling service permanent while also rolling it out into more-populous city boroughs. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the plan earlier this week in a press release. The City called the Staten Island program, which launched as a pilot project in October 2016, "a tremendous...

Hamstrung by regulatory setbacks in Pennsylvania and New York, Nulife Glass is in the midst of a major restructuring effort in order keep its cathode ray tube glass recycling business alive. Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are a major component of old TVs and computer monitors. They contain leaded glass, so states and the federal government regulate the end-of-life management of...

Hamstrung by regulatory setbacks in Pennsylvania and New York, Nulife Glass is in the midst of a major restructuring in order keep its CRT glass recycling business alive. The company's leader said smelting equipment previously used in New York has been sent to another location in Virginia. "I want to relocate the business to where we're welcome," Simon Greer, Nulife's owner,...

Two former E-World Recyclers executives have reached plea deals with federal prosecutors, putting an end to a legal battle that lasted more than two years. Under the deals, CEO Bob Erie pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy. Lyle De Stigter, the company's former chief operating officer, pleaded guilty to lying to the federal government. The agreements were reached...

A smuggling crackdown in China is causing headaches for U.S. companies that recycle plastics recovered from electronics. Steve Wong, executive president of the China Scrap Plastics Association, said the National Sword initiative is having a "profound impact" for e-scrap processors in the U.S. "Most of these scraps are contaminated with foreign waste," Wong said. "Thus far I have heard nobody would risk importing...