Colin Staub was a reporter and associate editor at Resource Recycling until August 2025.
The Recycletronics stockpile in Akron, Iowa was cleaned up in 2022, and the U.S. EPA is seeking to recover costs from companies that allegedly supplied CRTs to the site. | Photo courtesy U.S. EPA
Five recycling companies have agreed to pay relatively small sums to the U.S. EPA to settle claims that they supplied minor quantities of cathode ray tube materials to failed processor Recycletronics, which abandoned stockpiles throughout Iowa and Nebraska. Continue Reading
Closed Loop abandoned hundreds of millions of pounds of cathode ray tube glass, spurring years of legal battles. | Courtesy of consulting firm AECOM
An Ohio county judge has ordered Closed Loop Refining & Recovery and Closed Loop Glass to pay civil penalties to the state in what Ohio’s attorney general called the “final chapter” in the massive CRT stockpile cleanup case in that state. Continue Reading
Paladin plans to acquire additional companies and also grow organically in the months and years ahead. | Aquatarkus/Shutterstock
Formed by private equity and acquisitions of electronics processors in Florida and Minnesota, Paladin EnviroTech launched this week as the latest entrant in the ITAD space, with multiple industry veterans in leadership roles. Continue Reading
The scheme revolved around disposing of high-value electronics as scrap for recycling, and then reselling the devices for their higher market values. | Koy Hipster/Shutterstock
Three individuals have pleaded guilty to a scheme through which used electronics from The Ohio State University were artificially undervalued and disposed of as “scrap,” only for the downstream vendors to turn around and sell them for higher values and pay kickbacks to the manager of the university’s surplus department. Continue Reading
Apple Watches and other wearables are increasingly making their way into the electronics recycling stream | Mehaniq/Shutterstock
Blancco has added Apple Airpods and the latest series of Apple Watches to the list of devices supported by its data erasure and diagnostic tools. Continue Reading
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, a proponent of greater rare earth recovery through electronics recycling, takes notes during a July 16 U.S. House hearing discussing improvements to the recycling industry. | Photo courtesy U.S. House of Representatives
During a Congressional hearing last week, lawmakers expressed enthusiasm for bolstering the U.S. electronics recycling industry as one tool in strengthening the nation’s critical minerals supply lines. Continue Reading
MP Materials, which operates the only U.S. rare earth mine, is building out recycling capacity that will recover rare earths from end-of-life post-consumer electronics, with support from Apple. | Photo courtesy Apple
Domestic rare earth company MP Materials and major OEM Apple this week announced a collaboration in which Apple has committed to buy $500 million in magnets from MP. The project will involve the companies harvesting rare earth minerals from recycled electronics.
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Bloom’s impact reporting tool has been endorsed by major certification standard e-Stewards. | Mameraman/Shutterstock
A major enterprise resource planning software platform will provide clients with access to Bloom ESG’s environmental impact reporting calculator, and another major ITAD firm has adopted Bloom’s calculator and agreed to provide data that will bolster Bloom’s reporting capabilities. Continue Reading
Project stakeholders tour RecycleForce in May, observing an on-site rare earth recovery system built around acid-free dissolution technology. | Photo courtesy RecycleForce
Editor’s Note: Learn more in person – RecycleForce and Ames National Lab will speak about the rare earth recovery project during a plenary session at the 2025 E-Scrap Conference, set for Oct. 27-29 in Grapevine, Texas.
A pilot project is demonstrating a bolt-on modular system that could make it logistically and economically feasible for e-scrap processors to recover rare earth elements from end-of-life electronics within their existing facilities. Continue Reading
The petition centers on device theft that occurred during IT asset disposition jobs in the Washington, D.C. area in 2022 and 2023. | ThamKC/Shutterstock
A petition is gathering signatures to compel the e-Stewards, i-SIGMA and R2 certifications to publicly address and investigate an IT asset disposition-connected data breach that came to light early this year. All three certifications responded in statements to E-Scrap News. Continue Reading