courts/lawsuits

By rr_test_admin, 28 January, 2021
[caption id="attachment_11062" align="aligncenter" width="1000"]Close up of a judge's gavel with books in background. Bonnie Dennee pleaded guilty to conspiracy to store and transport hazardous waste without required permits and manifests. | Andrey Burmakin/Shutterstock[/caption] Another former executive of now-defunct e-scrap company 5R Proc
By rr_test_admin, 14 January, 2021
[caption id="attachment_14266" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Inside the Closed Loop facility at 1655 Watkins Road. The view from inside one of  Closed Loop's warehouses in Columbus, Ohio in 2015. | Courtesy of AECOM[/caption] E-scrap processor Kuusakoski has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit demanding that it help clean up massive CRT stockpiles in Columbus
By rr_test_admin, 17 December, 2020
[caption id="attachment_15009" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Police cars with lights at night. Local news reports say 52-year-old Christopher Wilson was arriving to work when he was approached by multiple men and shot. | TheaDesign/Shutterstock[/caption] Law enforcement authorities are investigating a homicide at a Kuusakoski e-scrap processin
By rr_test_admin, 3 December, 2020
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Court gavel resting on a book. For years, 5R stockpiled millions of pounds of CRT glass in two states - and hid the violations from regulators and auditors - before the company failed. | Evlakhov Valeriy/Shutterstock[/caption] After admitting to his role in a CRT-stockpiling scheme and his company's legal troubles, an executive
By rr_test_admin, 19 November, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13999" align="aligncenter" width="850"]CRT materials spilled in the former Closed Loop facilitiy. Sony's payment will help fund cleanup of the estimated 160 million pound stockpile at two Ohio facilities. | Courtesy of EnSafe.[/caption] Sony Electronics agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations that the company is liable for CRT materials abandoned b
By rr_test_admin, 27 October, 2020
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   [dropcap]Since[/dropcap] 2016, the e-scrap industry has known about the huge tonnages of abandoned CRTs sitting in Columbus, Ohio.