Markets and regulations are forcing companies active in the nation’s largest state electronics recycling program to landfill CRT glass. The move is legal, but it’s raising difficult questions for the many processors that have publicly vowed to avoid disposal.
Nationwide retailer Big Lots will pay millions of dollars to settle accusations that it improperly landfilled electronics and hazardous waste.
What does the future hold for California’s e-scrap recycling program? Stakeholders were recently polled on different possibilities, and respondents were divided on issues such as landfill ban proposals and whether or not to continue the state’s unique consumer-fee strategy.
CalRecycle makes changes to its e-scrap management program, and why TV manufacturers should consider repair over replacement.
Firms active in California’s electronics recycling program increasingly turned to landfill disposal for CRT material in 2016.
California will boost the sums consumers pay when they buy new display devices, ensuring the solvency of a state fund backing e-scrap recycling.
California’s e-waste recycling program has reached a new milestone: Since the legislation establishing the program became law six years ago, it has recycled its 1 billionth pound of obsolete electronics.
ERI will manage the first-ever mail-in electronics recycling program for the City of Los Angeles.
Recycling of CRT panel glass becomes easier in California, and researchers are looking for the industry’s help in an analysis of facility safety.
Companies participating in California’s e-scrap program have been frequently resorting to CRT glass disposal in 2016, and that trend is likely to continue as question marks swirl around the status of a glass-to-glass recycling operation in India.