UNICOR to Pay $1 Million to Clean Up Electronic Recycling Waste

UNICOR must pay $995,000 to clean up 14 million pounds of broken cathode ray tubes and crushed glass that it allegedly abandoned, a federal judge ruled, granting approval of the corporation’s consent decree with property companies in California and Arizona.

The plaintiffs sued over 50 electronic recycling companies and UNICOR, a government corporation also known as Federal Prison Industries Inc., alleging that the defendants secured leases at plaintiffs’ properties based on false representations that they would be operating the services in compliance with federal and state hazardous waste laws.

But the corporations created a sham recycling scheme to profit ...