The world's only remaining glass-to-glass recycling outlet for CRTs has idled its panel and funnel furnaces in Bharuch, India for "heavy maintenance" and stopped taking CRT glass from its U.S. partner, Cali Resources, E-Scrap News has learned.
The president of Cali Resources said any glass that would traditionally head to India is being processed in Mexico for a construction-products venture between Cali Resources and its partners.
This week a Kentucky news channel unearthed a CRT dumping ground near a processing facility owned by processor Global Environmental Services. The company, which also recently lost or withdrew from its environmental certifications, has since admitted to the wrongdoing.
According to a report published Wednesday by Lexington, Ky.
The federal government provided $96,000 to a New York company to design production-scale equipment to remove integrated circuits and components from printed circuit boards.
The processor known for its controversial approach to handling CRT glass has been fined more than $100,000 for an alleged series of worker safety violations cited at its Plainfield, Ill. plant.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued 26 "serious" violations on Sept. 22 to Kuusakoski U.S., the American wing of the Finnish metals company Kuusakoski Recycling.
An electronics recycling firm has been sued by Microsoft for allowing more than 70,000 Microsoft Office key cards to be re-sold on the black market.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in a Seattle district court, Microsoft accuses Global Electronic Recycling (GER), a Phoenix processor, of breaching the terms of a 2009 contract that explicitly called for the valuable activation cards to be destroyed.
Canada's retailer trade group says New Brunswick's proposed e-scrap takeback and recycling program would hide fees from consumers and increase red tape for businesses.
A provincial regulator defended the proposed program, however, saying it follows the approach of its provincial neighbor, Quebec, and is consistent with the direction other jurisdictions in Canada are moving.
The chairman and principal investor of 3S International says the processing company's future is bright, despite a recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
In an interview with E-Scrap News, W. Sidney Smith was frank about the company's early struggles. But he held firm that 3S would find a way to profitability utilizing its three automated processing machines for mercury-containing flat-panel display (FPD) TVs and monitors.
Responding to what it calls a dearth of reliable downstream processors of CRT funnel glass, the state of California will allow the lead-laden material to head to hazardous waste disposal facilities.
New estimates on the time it takes for a flat-panel display TV to enter the U.K. waste stream have been released.
The findings, determined by WRAP, an influential waste reduction and recycling nonprofit group based in the U.K., suggest the average life span of flat-panel display televisions is about 10 years. Life-span estimates are critical in estimating when devices will begin appearing in the recycling stream.
The federal government provided $96,000 to a New York company to design production-scale equipment to remove integrated circuits and components from printed circuit boards.