Despite having a CRT glass recycling furnace in place in New York, Nulife Glass has for years had difficulty coming into compliance with state facility rules.
Nulife began processing up to 10 tons per day earlier this year at its Dunkirk, N.Y. facility.
A Midwest electronics recycling executive lied to clients to generate large sums of money and used company funds for gambling and other personal expenses, according to court documents.
Japan is anticipating a glut of solar panels, and India wants to set up e-scrap recycling facilities in every state.
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New regulations are coming for exporters of CRTs, and an e-scrap collection program in Illinois comes back strong.
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Over the summer, the state of New York announced it would hand out $3 million in grants to help local governments recycle electronics.
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) are teaming up to provide real, comprehensive data on the global flow of used electronics.
"The genesis for this is that there is a need for a definitive study that provides data on e-scrap recycling around the world,
A nonprofit e-scrap recycling firm is shutting down at the end of the month due to low commodity prices and lack of business.
This story originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.
The state of Wisconsin is pleased with how its e-scrap program is going, but officials said in a recent report the program needs to be amended for the successes to continue.
E-Cycle Wisconsin started in 2010.
A new report predicts the IT asset disposition (ITAD) market will grow by an average of nearly 10 percent each year through 2022, an increase driven largely by mobile devices.
The report by