A recent bankruptcy petition and lawsuit from investors highlight the continuing troubles facing closed e-scrap company Diversified Recycling.
In addition, E-Scrap News has learned Diversified, which was based in the southeast U.S., has roughly 500,000 pounds of CRT devices still on hand.
Auditors have started conducting surprise visits of R2-certified facilities outside North America to see whether they're following R2 standards.
A processing operation in Singapore has become the first e-Stewards-certified location in Southeast Asia.
SERI says it has launched a number of initiatives in the wake of a tracking report from the Basel Action Network that found a host of recycling companies shipping devices overseas.
A bill in the Illinois Senate that would have limited the ability of e-scrap certification programs to enforce their standards will not get a vote during the spring legislative session.
The industry watchdog group BAN recently found certified processing companies exporting non-functional electronics.
Seattle-based Total Reclaim has admitted to exporting broken, mercury-containing flat panel monitors to Hong Kong after an investigation by the Basel Action Network followed the devices overseas.
Illinois legislators are quickly advancing a bill that aims to make it easier for e-scrap companies to send CRT glass to storage cells.
Best Buy has announced it will begin charging for TVs and computer monitors customers bring into the company's stores for recycling.