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The Illinois Senate has passed a resolution pushing the Basel Action Network and the e-Stewards Leadership Council to approve a petition from Kuusakoski Recycling that would allow the firm to store treated CRT glass at a landfill and count it as recycling.

The 8-page resolution, which can be viewed here, was authored by Sen. David Koehler, a Democrat, and Sen.

A Michigan e-scrap broker is facing up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 after pleading guilty to smuggling CRTs and other used electronics abroad. In an agreement reached between the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and Lip Bor Ng, also known as Paul Wu, Ng pleaded guilty to knowingly shipping containers of electronics labeled as plastics and metals to Hong Kong and China. "He falsely declared the commodities as plastic and metal scrap, when, in fact, they contained various types of used electronics and computer components, including cathode-ray tube (CRT) monit

E-Waste Systems has closed its Geneva, New York processing facility.

A significant backlog of CRTs and CRT glass is believed to be housed at the facility. The company is also being sued for failing to pay Geneva employees between mid-October and late January, according to an article in the Finger Lakes Times.

A Spanish company has launched a pilot project to use leaded CRT glass in ceramic tiles, and the U.K. wants the electronics industry to collect more material for recycling in 2015.

E-scrap recycling is ramping up in Israel, following the implementation of an extended producer responsibility law in the country.

Diversified Recycling has been slammed by the Basel Action Network for allegedly sending glass to a downstream partner that dumped the material at a local landfill.

A Spanish company supplying CRT glass to the European ceramics industry has been seeing glass tonnages from the U.S. steadily increase.

In an update sent to E-Scrap News, JJ Santos of Camacho Recycling says demand in the European ceramic tile industry for both panel and funnel glass is "increasing more and more."

Moreover, he expects Camacho will receive more than 67,000 tons of CRT glass from the U.S. in 2015. Glass tonnages, according to Santos, will also start arriving from Canada this month.

The trustee appointed to handle the liquidation of Creative Recycling Systems told E-Scrap News the company's collapse came down to one thing: CRT glass. In an interview, Jerry McHale, trustee for the Florida-based processor currently ensnared in a multi-million dollar legal battle with Regions Bank, said Creative failed to devise a reasonable strategy to handle the significant loads of glass that came in company doors. "Going back in history, to me, it looks like the

An industry executive with ties to the lone remaining glass-to-glass CRT recycling operation says the company, Videocon, will be continuing to manufacture CRT TVs and monitors for at least another three years.

If accurate, such a time frame would provide breathing room for U.S. companies needing to move collected glass downstream.

"The CRT market is likely to exist for three years, if not more," Albino Bessa, president of Videocon glass supplier Technologies Displays Americas, told E-Scrap News.

Florida-based Creative Recycling Systems has moved to liquify its assets, court documents show. Creative, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this September after being sued to the tune of $18.7 million, announced the decision on Dec. 16. A notice sent to potentially affected parties and obtained by E-Scrap News states an additional meeting will be held with creditors on Jan.

A CRT glass processor operating in Arizona and Ohio has received a notice of violation from state environmental officials, but company representatives say a plan will be worked out to ensure glass moves downstream.

In the official notice of violation (NOV) dated Oct. 6 and obtained by E-Scrap News, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) lists four violations found during an inspection two months earlier at the Phoenix facility of Closed Loop Refining and Recovery.