A former U.S. e-scrap executive pleads not guilty to federal charges related to business practices, and an infamous scrap site in Ghana grabs more headlines.
Safer processing: The German government will help build an e-scrap processing facility in the Agbogbloshie area of Accra, Ghana.
This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of E-Scrap News. 
Converge currently has 23 employees.
A bill advancing in the Washington state legislature blacklists e-scrap processors that twice violate state program rules.
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.
The furnace initiative was announced in 2011, and the company aimed for completion within three years.
Colorado is one of just three states with an electronics landfill ban but no statewide e-scrap management program. An e-scrap executive in the state recently provided an update on how that system is working out.
In a recent webinar, Janice Oldemeyer, president of Onsite Recycling and its Colorado I.T.
A judge has ruled in favor of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery's former landlord in a case centered on CRT glass stockpiling. Just how much the defunct company will be asked to pay in damages, however, is still up in the air.
Judge Michael J.
An update to the e-scrap recycling certification standard incorporates the latest version of the ISO 14001 standard, as well as approved amendments to the second e-Stewards iteration and other changes.
The release of the e-Stewards Standard Version 3.0 comes after a four-week public consultation process in February.
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Consumers in China hold onto their old mobile phones for an average of two years after replacing them, and flame retardants in e-plastics show up in recycled products.
China: Less than 10 percent of mobile phones no longer in use are recycled by Chinese citizens each year.