Company says it can fill void in Oregon electronics recycling
Summary
Texas-based ECS Refining, which had been handling 41 percent of the material collected under Oregons 10-year-old E-Cycles program, was ordered to close and sell off its assets by U.S. Bankruptcy Court on July 2. URT already processes about 55 percent of the computers, TVs, monitors and other electronics that Oregonians bring to designated locales for recycling under the state program. The news hit the recycling industry hard, because its already reeling over Chinas new purity standards for accepting mixed paper and plastics collected on Oregon curbsides. Even worse for the industry, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Metro was forced to authorize some haulers to simply take those materials to a landfill instead of a recycling depot. After the sudden demise of ECS, DEQ officials quickly said thered be no major disruptions in the E-Cycles program, because URT would initially step up to fill the void.
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