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.
Goodwill Industries in Indiana is no longer accepting TVs at some locations due to CRT recycling issues, and a modular computer concept looks for funding.
A lobbyist has been hired by R2 and e-Stewards to stage a last-minute fight against a bill that’s moving swiftly through the Illinois legislature.
This story originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.
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As the e-scrap industry has struggled to efficiently handle CRT glass in recent years, many stakeholders have held out hope that technologies could be developed to cost-effectively remove lead from the material and pave the way more CRT recycling.
Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions.
United Nations University (UNU) recently released a report on possible uses for CRT glass, but even the report authors want to see more research conducted.
Two familiar pieces of legislation under consideration in Illinois aim to promote CRT glass storage, but they take different paths toward that goal.
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.
Participants of a webinar this week spoke openly about two particularly contentious issues facing CRT glass management: downstream capacity and manufacturer funding.