E-Scrap News readers in April were drawn to stories about conflicts between e-scrap processors and government agencies on both sides of the country.
E-Scrap News readers in April were drawn to stories about conflicts between e-scrap processors and government agencies on both sides of the country.
As part of an investigation into CRT glass recycling markets, E-Scrap News has learned that recycling processors in several states have abandoned operations after charging CRT suppliers and filling up a handful of warehouses with more than 10,000 tons of CRTs and CRT glass. State officials are now struggling with how to manage these problems.
Last week E-Scrap News reported on several warehouses in Arizona and Colorado where large amounts of CRTs were left behind when the plants closed. Two firms — Dow Management and Luminous Recycling — shut their doors, leaving as much as 10,000 tons of CRTs and CRT glass.
Participants of a webinar this week spoke openly about two particularly contentious issues facing CRT glass management: downstream capacity and manufacturer funding.
Nulife Glass has begun processing leaded CRT glass at its newly built furnace in Dunkirk, N.Y.
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Intercon Solutions, the e-scrap processor denied e-Stewards certification almost a year ago amid allegations of improper export of materials, has filed a suit against the Basel Action Network for defamation.
SWEEEP Kuusakoski and Nulife Glass have teamed up on a new processing system to recover lead from CRT glass.
In a sign of the increasingly tight CRT market, regulators in California have moved to increase the payments issued to firms that collect and/or process lower value electronics to help them fully cover recycling costs.
A CRT glass processor operating in Arizona and Ohio has received a notice of violation from state environmental officials, but company representatives say a plan will be worked out to ensure glass moves downstream.
The trustee appointed to handle the liquidation of Creative Recycling Systems told E-Scrap News the company’s collapse came down to one thing: CRT glass.