The e-scrap export criminal case involving Colorado's Executive Recycling has seen recent developments after being tied up in appeals for the past four years. Brandon Richter, owner and CEO of now-defunct Executive Recycling, was re-sentenced to federal prison June 16, on a reduced sentence as part of a plea agreement.

Bankruptcies are a fact of the business world, and the electronics recycling sector is no exception.

An e-scrap facility transforms into an art gallery for an evening, and a Chinese import expert says moving recovered electronics into the country will only get tougher. Art of e-scrap: A section of a New York City electronics recycling organization's facility was recently transformed into a gallery of sculptures and installations made from recovered material

Ark-La-Tex Shredding Company of Tyler, Texas; Bayaud Enterprises of Denver; Commodity Resource & Environmental Inc. of Mojave, Calif.; Green Country Shredding and Recycling, Inc. of Tulsa, Okla.; Integra Certified Document Destruction LLC of Elkhart, Ind.; Record Keepers LLC of Fargo, N.D.; Safeguard Shredding LLC

A professor has been honored by the U.S. EPA for developing a fast and low-cost method of recycling rare earth elements, including those inside electronics. A team led by Prof. Eric J. Schelter of the University of Pennsylvania conducted research into separating blends of rare earth elements found in consumer devices.

Com2 Recycling Solutions is opening a facility in Georgia as it expands its capacity to produce a glaze product from CRT glass. The glaze is currently used on tile products made by Brazilian manufacturers. Illinois-based Com2 says the move will increase its total CRT processing capacity to 200 tons of intact devices per day and could also give e-scrap companies in the southern U.S.

An electronics reuse and recycling company CEO has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for his role in an effort to copy, import and sell counterfeit Microsoft software. Clifford Eric Lundgren, 33, pled guilty to criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods in federal court on Feb. 28.

The Bureau of International Recycling has begun its study on worldwide e-scrap generation and flows. The Bureau of International Recycling's (BIR) E-Scrap Committee has started the analysis of available global e-scrap information, assisted by a consultant at the Harokopio University of Athens in Greece.

Illinois-based PC Rebuilders & Recyclers (PCRR) has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, indicating it plans to sell off its assets to pay creditors. The company has less than $50,000 in assets and its liabilities total between $1 million and $10 million, according to the

Observers notice a change in Apple's position on the right-to-repair movement, and the U.S. military spends $80 million to develop a new kind of computer chip. Here to stay: The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly, and according to some experts, that trend is expected to accelerate.