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By rr_test_admin, 1 July, 2021
[caption id="attachment_16183" align="aligncenter" width="692"]Closed Loop Arizona site from drone. A drone photo showing CRT glass piles at the South 59th Avenue site, from a cleanup plan prepared by Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions.[/caption] In recent months, crews have cleaned up nearly 40 million pounds of CRT materials at former Closed Loop locations in
By rr_test_admin, 25 March, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15603" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Court gavel resting on a wooden desk with blurred background. A former e-scrap company owner faces potential prison time, fines and supervised release following any prison time served. | Zolnierek/Shutterstock[/caption] The leader of a company that stockpiled CRT materials in the Midwe
By rr_test_admin, 11 March, 2021
[caption id="attachment_2378" align="aligncenter" width="1000"]CRT pile for recycling. Court records detail how much material was stored at each 5R site, estimated cleanup costs and who will shoulder the financial burden of removing the hazardous waste. | Boonchuay1970/Shutterstock[/caption] A property owner paid $1.1 million to clean up e-scrap abandoned by 5R Processors
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, 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.
By rr_test_admin, 24 September, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14514" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Retroworks de Mexico launched in 2007, associated with U.S. processor American Retroworks. | Photo courtesy Robin Ingenthron.[/caption] After 13 years, Retroworks de Mexico will turn off the lights and shut the door next month.