A Spanish company supplying CRT glass to the European ceramics industry has been seeing glass tonnages from the U.S. steadily increase.
A Spanish company supplying CRT glass to the European ceramics industry has been seeing glass tonnages from the U.S. steadily increase.
Diversified Recycling has been slammed by the Basel Action Network for allegedly sending glass to a downstream partner that dumped the material at a local landfill. The company is also accused of selling broken devices online.
A Spanish company has launched a pilot project to use leaded CRT glass in ceramic tiles, and the U.K. wants the electronics industry to collect more material for recycling in 2015.
E-Waste Systems has closed its Geneva, New York processing facility.
E-scrap firms processed slightly more CRT glass from Washington state in 2014 than they did the year before, according to a report.
An industry group has criticized a recently signed bill modifying the e-scrap law in Illinois, saying the state failed to account for existing recycling outlets for CRT glass.
Responding to what it calls a dearth of reliable downstream processors of CRT funnel glass, the state of California will allow the lead-laden material to head to hazardous waste disposal facilities.
Nulife Glass says testing is underway on its New York CRT glass recycling furnace and that another operation in Virginia will get up and running in 2016.
One of the country’s largest outlets for CRT glass, Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, is no longer certified to the R2 standard in Arizona and has seen its certification in Ohio suspended.
An e-scrap processor has announced plans to build a facility in Whitewater, Wisc. with the goal of transforming CRT glass to tiles.