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The former leaders of CRT outlet Closed Loop Refining and Recovery have been directed by a court to pay more than $18 million for breaking the lease at the company’s Columbus, Ohio headquarters and leaving behind more than 100 million pounds of CRT glass.
Millions of pounds of CRT devices abandoned by Utah’s Stone Castle Recycling continue to plague local communities. Continue Reading
A CRT-collecting e-scrap firm in Utah has come under extensive state-level scrutiny for being slow to address operational miscues identified by regulators.
Stone Castle Recycling, which has been mired in an ongoing back-and-forth with Utah state regulators, recently experienced its second fire of the year.
The EPEAT sustainable electronics program now includes mobile phones, providing assurance to buyers that the qualifying devices meet certain standards for end-of-life management.
Global e-commerce site eBay is honoring a California woman who immigrated from Colombia with nothing more than a suitcase and later co-founded a successful e-scrap company.
An initiative funded by the federal government could help solve a key materials recovery issue in e-scrap.
Last month, E-Scrap News readers were drawn to stories about changes at CRT downstream outlets and advancing program reform legislation in Illinois.
The group that administers the R2 certification has published advice to help certified companies comply with the electronics recycling standard’s requirements.
A bill replacing Pennsylvania’s electronics recycling program has stalled until at least this fall, and a couple of e-scrap recycling efforts include a charitable bent.