After allowing a Fort Wayne, Ind. land purchase agreement to expire, Exurban says it is still looking to build a $350 million e-scrap smelter somewhere else in northeast Indiana. | SevenMaps/Shutterstock
Facing an ongoing lawsuit, the company behind a planned e-scrap smelter near Fort Wayne, Ind. has decided to look to build elsewhere.
Hong Kong courts convicted seven importers of illegally bringing in e-scrap from several countries. The U.S. was on the list of exporting countries.
In 2015, GES dug a hole behind its Georgetown, Ky. facility and filled it with e-scrap, including leaded glass, and other materials.
When Global Environmental Services failed, the processor left CRT messes at multiple sites in two states. Years later, with the former owner in prison, government officials are nearing the last of the warehouse cleanups.
The 131,000-square-foot space that had been leased by Closed Loop at 2200 Fairwood Ave. was cleaned up as of July 14, 2021. | Courtesy of Ensafe’s closure report.
On the final day of 2021, a judge approved Kuusakoski’s $6 million legal settlement with Ohio warehouse owners, marking a major milestone in the years-long Closed Loop CRT cleanup case.
FPD Recycling has sued to invalidate a patent licensed to Votechnik for a flat-panel dismantling robot. | PaeGAG/Shutterstock
A company commercializing its flat-panel device dismantling system in the U.S. has gone to court seeking to invalidate a competitor’s patent.
Cleanup of CRT materials at Closed Loop’s Phoenix sites is estimated to cost $15 million or more. | E-Scrap News File Photo
IMS Electronics Recycling will pay $5 million to help clean up CRT materials abandoned at former Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sites in Phoenix.
Photo illustration by Tori Maier-Mahaffy with photos from EnSafe and Resource Recycling, Inc.
As CRT cleanup litigation reaches a conclusion in Ohio, a similar legal battle is ramping up in Arizona. | Courtesy of EnSafe
An $11.2 million cleanup, $9.6 million property sale and $1 million “orphan share” – those were just a few key figures to emerge as the years-long legal battle over Closed Loop’s massive stockpile concludes.
The former owner of Eastern Electronics Recycling pleaded guilty to charges of knowingly storing hazardous materials without permits. | Tiko Aramyan/Shutterstock
The owner of a shuttered e-scrap company will avoid prison time but will still have to fund the cleanup of CRT materials in North Carolina.
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Closed Loop began leasing the Phoenix facilities in 2010, and when it failed in early 2016, it left a combined 106 million pounds of CRT materials on both properties (59th Ave. property pictured). | Courtesy of Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions/ADEQ
Owners of Phoenix warehouses filed a federal lawsuit against e-scrap companies that shipped CRT materials to Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, and already two defendants have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million each.