The future is coming to desktops and can be fueled by empty soda and milk bottles, among other scrap plastics. If you paid any attention to the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you likely read about TVs that were four times more high-definition than the one in your living room, tablet computers of all shapes and sizes —...

Montgomery, Alabama has plans to bring back curbside recycling. As part of the plan, it's also working on a new $32 million materials recovery facility to be built by Florida-based Imperium Energy. According to a report in the Montgomery Advertiser, the company has retained Bulk Handling Systems to design the system that will sort about 80 percent of the city's...

Penalties have been handed down in the case involving the largest criminal network ever uncovered by the U.K. Environment Agency. A total of 220,000 GBP ($354,266) in fines have been levied on eight individuals and three companies in connection with an electronic waste trafficking scam. The individuals and companies in question illegally exported 496 tons of scrap televisions, refrigerators, computers...

Year-over-year expenditures for California's Beverage Container Recycling Fund exceed revenues by approximately $100 million, according to data presented at a recent Container Recycling Institute webinar. One part of the problem is that California's recycling program has been too successful. In order to maintain solvency, the state's current break-even point for the beverage container recycling program requires a maximum recycling rate...

Houston's proposal to build a dirty MRF has been selected as one of 20 finalists by Bloomberg Philanthropies in its Mayors Challenge, a competition meant to encourage cities to come up with ideas to solve problems facing urban communities. The city that wins the grand prize will receive $5 million, while four runner-up cities will receive $1 million each. Houston...

The polls have closed, the pundits are silent (sort of) and the ballots have been counted. But one question remains: What to do with all those political yard signs? All across the country, people are taking down signs expressing their support for candidates and causes. And in some parts of the country, efforts are under way to collect and recycle...

SWEEEP Kuusakoski and Nulife Glass have teamed up on a new processing system to recover lead from CRT glass. The new glass furnace is the product of over a decade of technological innovation and design by Nulife founder Simon Greer, which included a pilot prototype version installed at the company's Manchester, England facility. The latest version of the system was...

All 10 citations levied against COM2 Computers and Technologies LLC by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be cleared by the end of the month, following a settlement agreement made between the agency and the company Oct. 16.OSHA had alleged that the Carol Stream, Illinois processor had violated air quality and worker safety practices relating to lead exposure at one...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued 11 citations against dual-certified e-scrap processor COM2 Computers and Technologies LLC, but the company says it is meeting with the agency next week to contest the allegations.COM2 was certified to both e-Stewards and R2 at its Carol Stream, Illinois facility in the Fall of 2011, using AQA International, approximately seven months before...

CRT glass may be heading to California landfills — legally. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control has issued an emergency regulation that will allow recycling firms in the state to send some of their CRT glass material to approved landfills. Provided they are unable to find a recycling option for their material, processors can now send funnel glass to...