The owner of former CRT glass processor Global Environmental Services is set to go on trial later this month.
Facing one count of conspiracy and seven counts of hazardous waste management crimes, Kenny Gravitt is expected to appear in court on Jan. 22.
A plasma e-scrap furnace malfunction at an Arkansas smelting operation two years ago has spurred a $10.5 million insurance lawsuit against an equipment manufacturer that provided certain components.
BlueOak Arkansas, which started up a commercial-scale e-scrap smelting operation at its Osceola, Ark.
The founder of defunct processor Zloop is facing the possibility of decades in prison after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy and fraud charges.
After a five-day trial, a federal jury has found Robert M. Boston, 54, of Hickory, N.C.
Two electronics recycling companies recently ended disputes with California regulators that centered on the handling of metal-laden dust from e-scrap shredders.
After dismissing an earlier indictment because of errors, federal prosecutors have filed revised charges against Kenny Gravitt, the owner of now-closed e-scrap firm Global Environmental Services.
The indictment, which was filed on Oct. 12 in the United States District Court at Lexington, Ky.
Stakeholders have come to settlements in lawsuits over an explosion caused by batteries from used electronics in North Carolina.
In July 2016, a four-alarm fire at a Wilson Trucking shipping center in Charlotte, N.C. sent six employees to the hospital and caused substantial damage.
Former employees of E-Waste Systems have yet to be paid over $240,000 in court-ordered compensation. Meanwhile, the U.S.
There was some level of OEM influence in an e-scrap company's decision to send tens of millions of pounds of CRT glass to the ill-fated Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, statements from Kuusakoski and Sony show.
Closed Loop was a downstream outlet for CRT glass that closed last year with sizable tonnages of CRT material in warehouses in Ohio and Ar
A lawsuit accuses Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, Kuusakoski, and UNICOR of being responsible for a "sham recycling scheme" that led to the abandonment of over 100 million pounds of CRT material in Columbus, Ohio.
The suit, filed Sept.
Hong Kong courts convicted seven importers of illegally bringing in e-scrap from several countries. The U.S. was on the list of exporting countries.
According to a recent