A lawsuit from TV manufacturer Vizio that questioned the constitutionality of Connecticut's electronics recycling law and program has been dismissed in its entirety.
Private-equity company Caretta Partners now owns a majority stake in Oklahoma City-based HiTech Assets.
Leaders at HiTech, which was founded in 2002, expect the acquisition to help push growth at the ITAD-focused company (ITAD stands for IT asset disposition).
R2 and e-Stewards representatives are challenging the legality of a bill in Illinois that prohibits accrediting organizations from penalizing e-scrap companies if they send CRT glass to storage cells at a landfill.
New York state officials will dip into an environmental fund to pay half of the e-scrap recycling expenses incurred each year by counties.
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will tap into the state's Environmental Protection Fund to pay up to half of each county's annual e-scrap expenses, up to a maximum of $2 mi
Statistics released by the U.K. government show well over 500,000 metric tons of household electronics and appliances were collected for recycling in 2015.
Up nearly 30,000 tons from 2014's collection total of 491,880 metric tons, the 2015 haul marks the first time U.K.
Participants of a webinar this week spoke openly about two particularly contentious issues facing CRT glass management: downstream capacity and manufacturer funding.
The webinar, hosted by the Northeast Recycling Council's State Ele