Two men accused of stockpiling and taking steps to illegally dispose of CRT glass have pleaded guilty to federal hazardous waste violations. One of them has been sentenced to probation.
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Two men accused of stockpiling and taking steps to illegally dispose of CRT glass have pleaded guilty to federal hazardous waste violations. One of them has been sentenced to probation.
Import policies in China and Southeast Asia continue to tighten, making it more difficult to move certain e-scrap materials to international markets.
Serdar Bankaci, Gary Curtis, Miles Harter and Rob Schafer discuss a range of industry topics at the 2018 E-Scrap Conference in New Orleans.
Material markets have shifted over the past year, but commodity pricing is just one of myriad forces that are constantly shaping and reshaping the e-scrap and ITAD sector.
The owners of Seattle processor Total Reclaim have pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy crimes, marking the latest development in the fallout from the company’s exports of LCD devices to Hong Kong.
BlueOak Arkansas, a circuit board processing operation that received significant attention for its use of a plasma furnace, appears to be shuttering.
A Canadian e-scrap operator has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Basel Action Network (BAN) after the Seattle-based watchdog group accused the business of exporting electronics to developing nations.
An International Fire Code amendment that would have impacted e-scrap operators has been rejected.
Federal regulators are considering a proposal to ban exports of unprocessed e-scrap and require stringent tracking procedures for exports that are still allowed.
Electronics manufacturers are proposing a nationwide point-of-sale fee to fund recycling of CRT devices, an industry group announced last week.
A Canadian e-scrap technology company has received over $700,000 after pitching its hydrometallurgical process on a reality TV show.