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Battery management insights at the Recycled Materials Association’s 2025 conference drew reader attention last month, as did stories covering the liability fallout from an Iowa CRT stockpile, solar recycling developments, battery processor Li-Cycle’s financial woes, and enforcement actions against e-scrap imports in Southeast Asia.
The list below shows our top stories published in May in terms of unique page views.
1 | Battery danger and solutions take center stage at ReMA
After a year that recorded a notable increase in e-scrap facility battery fires, the growing hazard and ways of mitigating it received ample attention at the Recycled Materials Association’s annual conference in San Diego last month.
2 | Suppliers targeted for Iowa CRT stockpile cleanup costs
Two e-scrap collectors that allegedly sent cathode ray tube glass to failed Midwest processor Recycletronics recently received demand letters from the U.S. EPA seeking compensation for more than $1.3 million in cleanup costs from Superfund remediation activities in 2022.
3 | E-scrap sector continues solar processing push
Electronics processors are increasingly adding solar panel recycling capacity, in some cases processing the panels similarly to declining streams like CRT glass and in other cases rolling out entirely new technologies, companies said in recent interviews.
4 | Li-Cycle suspends operations as it pursues buyers
Li-Cycle, once poised to build the first lithium-ion battery recycling facility of its kind in North America, is changing its leadership and limiting operations as it tries to sell the business or its assets.
5 | Illegal e-scrap imports blocked in Malaysia, Thailand
Officials in Malaysia and Thailand seized containers with hundreds of tons of e-scrap illegally imported from the United States in May after tips from the U.S. nonprofit Basel Action Network.