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.
Nulife Glass has not yet heard from state officials on whether millions of pounds of leaded CRT material will be considered hazardous waste.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) in October tentatively 
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After several weeks spent considering several candidates, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
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UNICOR, also known as Federal Prison Industries, has shut down its electronics recycling facilities at several prisons across the country, leaving a sizable gap in the U.S.
Key electronics recycling leaders, especially those from Asia, gathered in China recently to discuss the realities of e-scrap management from a global perspective.
The Electronics & Cars Recycling event, sponsored by ICM, was held in Macau in mid-November.
At the time of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery's closure earlier this year, more than 50 million pounds of leaded CRT glass were stockpiled at company sites around Phoenix.
Government agencies have started cleaning up the toxic aftermath of a fire at a Los Angeles-area metals and e-scrap recycling facility. Clean-up costs are expected to total in the millions of dollars.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration isn't the reason a recycling firm should be concerned about safety. An industry expert said recycling companies of all kinds – from e-scrap processors to materials recovery facilities – should make safety a priority because it's the right thing to do.
Every day, nonprofit organizations around the country are refurbishing computers and donating many of them to underserved populations.