California is aiming to recoup more than $14 million in funds it says 12 companies, including a subsidiary of Waste Management, owe the state’s container deposit program.
Bobby Elliott is the editor at large at Resource Recycling. He has been with the company since 2013 and has reported extensively on the e-scrap industry, including CRT glass recycling, state electronics recycling programs and flat panel display processing. He can be reached at [email protected]California is aiming to recoup more than $14 million in funds it says 12 companies, including a subsidiary of Waste Management, owe the state’s container deposit program.
Hamstrung by regulatory setbacks in Pennsylvania and New York, Nulife Glass is in the midst of a major restructuring effort in order keep its cathode ray tube glass recycling business alive.
This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of Resource Recycling.
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Ontario’s proposed shift to a recycling program run and funded by product manufacturers has not been widely opposed.
Contract negotiations between West Coast dock workers and their employers have appeared to hit a boiling point, leaving recycled material in need of export stuck in ports – and potentially bound for landfills.
Large piles of CRT glass at Closed Loop’s S 59th Ave. site in Phoenix. Photo from 2016.
Major cathode ray tube tonnages left behind by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sit in warehouses in Arizona and Ohio as regulatory and legal action continues.
ECS Refining, one of the nation’s largest e-scrap processors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. But the move appears to be driven more by an ownership struggle than bottom line issues.
Washington state regulators have fined an electronics recycling company for the second time, alleging Total Reclaim stockpiled flat-panel devices in trailers in Seattle.
A global recycling trade group says China has rekindled its scrutiny of imported plastics.