Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that consumes significant tonnages of CRT glass, has cancelled a $210 million slag fuming furnace project after an ongoing delay tied to market conditions.
The furnace initiative was announced in 2011, and the company aimed for completion within three years.
Colorado is one of just three states with an electronics landfill ban but no statewide e-scrap management program. An e-scrap executive in the state recently provided an update on how that system is working out.
In a recent webinar, Janice Oldemeyer, president of Onsite Recycling and its Colorado I.T.
A judge has ruled in favor of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery's former landlord in a case centered on CRT glass stockpiling. Just how much the defunct company will be asked to pay in damages, however, is still up in the air.
Judge Michael J.
Firms active in California's electronics recycling program increasingly turned to landfill disposal for CRT material in 2016.
According to data supplied by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), over 77 million pounds of CRT glass were handled by program participants in 2016 and 45 percent of that total - nearly 35 million pounds - w
Greenpeace targets smartphones in a new report, and a workplace chemical exposure rule may be delayed due to a White House directive.
Device demand drops: Worldwide shipments of new personal computing devices, including PCs and tablets, are expected to decline, according to a new forecast by the
Kenny Gravitt, who led Kentucky-based GES, could be facing prison time and steep fines in connection with the handling and disposal of CRT glass.
Charged by a federal grand jury with one count of conspiracy and seven counts of environmental law crimes, Gravitt has been ordered to appear March 6 in United States District Court at Le
A stockpile of CRT glass in the Midwest has caught the attention of the U.S. EPA and led state regulators to suspend an e-scrap company's license to accept the material.
Recycletronics, an electronics recycling company based in Sioux City, Iowa, was forced to stop accepting CRT devices Jan. 17.
When an electronics recycling facility achieves R2 certification, stipulations of the standard extend to activities outside the walls of that building, according to a recent decision.
That determination was approved by the board of Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), the nonprofit organization that administ
Two familiar pieces of legislation under consideration in Illinois aim to promote CRT glass storage, but they take different paths toward that goal.
The idea of storing CRT glass in dedicated cells at a landfill was
Farmers join the fight to allow consumers to repair electronics, and a lack of available recycling options leads to the dumping of CRT televisions along roadways in one state.
Free recycling: A North Carolina environmental protection group subsidized an e-scrap collection program in a county that has struggled to recycle electronics du