CRTs

An $11.2 million cleanup, $9.6 million property sale and $1 million "orphan share" - those were just a few key figures to emerge as the years-long legal battle over Closed Loop's massive stockpile concludes.

The collapse of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery has proven the most consequential CRT abandonment case in U.S. history, stretching on for years and costing the electronics recycling industry, landlords and taxpayers millions of dollars. Now, we're unveiling a special feature to help you track our extensive reporting on this saga in a convenient timeline format.

The owner of a shuttered e-scrap company will avoid prison time but will still have to fund the cleanup of CRT materials in North Carolina.

TDM, a Mexican company that has recycled millions of pounds of CRTs from the U.S., closed its CRT recycling business this year.

Owners of Phoenix warehouses filed a federal lawsuit against e-scrap companies that shipped CRT materials to Closed Loop Refining and Recovery, and already two defendants have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million each.

Under a legal settlement submitted this week, warehouse owners will drop their CRT lawsuit against Samsung, LG and MRM. E-scrap processor Kuusakoski, however, will pay another $1 million.

Another OEM and an electronics recycling company have agreed to help fund cleanup of CRT materials abandoned by Closed Loop Refining and Recovery in Columbus, Ohio.

Sony Electronics and EWASTE+ agreed to pay a combined $2.4 million to end their years-long entanglement in a lawsuit over CRT materials abandoned in Ohio.

A resolution may be near in the years-long legal battle over who should help fund the cleanup of about 150 million pounds of abandoned CRT materials in Columbus, Ohio.

Two New England e-scrap recycling companies have agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund CRT cleanups at former Closed Loop Refining and Recovery warehouses in Ohio.