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.
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 ERI facility in Lincoln Park, N.J.
While many e-scrap companies have begun avoiding the CRT-heavy streams that define local government collections, the leader of one major processor says cities continue to be valuable partners for his firm.
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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Technologies Displays Mexicana (TDM) is the latest to shut down its CRT operations, following companies such as Camacho Recycling and Nulife Glass. | Google streetview
TDM, a Mexican company that has recycled millions of pounds of CRTs from the U.S., closed its CRT recycling business this year.
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.
Under a settlement submitted Oct. 31, e-scrap processor Kuusakoski would pay an additional $1 million to the plaintiffs, on top of $6 million it has already agreed to pay in the Closed Loop case. | BCFC/Shutterstock
Under a legal settlement submitted this week, warehouse owners will drop their CRT lawsuit against Samsung, LG and MRM. E-scrap processor Kuusakoski, however, will pay another $1 million.
Dell, IMS Electronics Recycling and GEEP USA all reached settlements in the Closed Loop Refining and Recovery case, agreeing to help fund the cleanup of abandoned CRT materials in Ohio. | PaeGAG/Shutterstock
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Another OEM and two electronics recycling companies have agreed to help fund cleanup of CRT materials abandoned by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery in Columbus, Ohio.
Sony and EWASTE+ join a group of companies that have settled in court regarding CRT cleanup costs in the Closed Loop case. | Aerial Mike/Shutterstock
Sony Electronics and EWASTE+ agreed to pay a combined $2.4 million to end their years-long entanglement in a lawsuit over CRT materials abandoned in Ohio.
A number of e-scrap companies and OEMs have settled in court regarding CRT cleanup costs in the Closed Loop case. | Alex Staroseltsev/Shutterstock
A resolution may be near in the years-long legal battle over who should help fund the cleanup of about 150 million pounds of abandoned CRT materials in Columbus, Ohio.