[caption id="attachment_7133" align="alignright" width="221"] Marc Artozqui, Kuusakoski[/caption]
Kuusakoski Recycling has installed a new CEO to run its U.S. business as the company evaluates its operations and the evolving e-scrap marketplace.
A representative at Kuusakoski U.S.
Changes in the electronics recycling stream persuaded URT Solutions to expand the capabilities of its Oregon plant, allowing the facility to process various other device types.
The processor responded to the decreasing CRT makeup and growth in other devices by installing a shredder at its Clackamas, Ore. plant.
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.
[caption id="attachment_6870" align="alignright" width="300"] Sarah Murray of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources speaks at E-Scrap 2017.[/caption]
When it comes to CRT management, the profit is shaky and the industry is littered with horror stories of stockpiles and legal battles to determine who pays for cleanup.
But a company can take steps to avoid those pitfalls if it co
A second e-scrap company has been released from an Arizona CRT abandonment lawsuit targeting upstream suppliers of the material.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this year by an Arizona landlord and stems from CRT processor Dow Management
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
Nulife Glass, a company that built its own furnace to recycle CRT glass in the U.S., has decided to close.
The firm, led by Simon Greer, struggled to clear regulatory hurdles related to its accumulation of CRT material in New York, Pennsylvania and V
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.
Three million pounds of CRT materials sit stockpiled in an Arizona warehouse formerly used by Dow Management, and the current property owner wants upstream generators of the material to pay for its cleanup.
In a legal case filed this year, 10 California e-scrap companies are accused of negligence, trespass, nuisance and other legal violations for alleged
State and federal regulators are putting pressure on an Iowa CRT processor they say has illegally stockpiled glass and allowed lead to contaminate the ground.
The U.S.