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.
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Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].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.
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An International Fire Code amendment that would have impacted e-scrap operators has been rejected.
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