On September 15, 2011, a Grand Jury in the District of Colorado returned an indictment against Executive Recycling, Inc., an e-waste recycling company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and two of its executives citing a variety of charges including multiple counts of wire and mail fraud, failure to file a Notice of Intent to Export with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), smuggling of goods from the United States, and destruction of records. (United States of America v. Executive Recycling, Inc., et al., Case 1:11-cr-00376- WJM, United States District Court for the District of Colorado.) Executive Recycling, Inc. collects e-waste from private households, businesses, and government entities.

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2. In the first case of its kind, a jury in Colorado has found an
electronic waste (e-waste) recycling company and two of its
executives guilty of illegally exporting e-waste overseas, in
addition to other criminal charges. The implications of this
case are broad and the convictions could serve as a
catalyst for federal regulation of e-waste.

3. On September 15, 2011, a Grand Jury in the District of
Colorado returned an indictment against Executive
Recycling, Inc., an e-waste recycling company
headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and two of its
executives citing a variety of charges including multiple
counts of wire and mail fraud, failure to file a Notice of
Intent to Export with the U.S.

4. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in violation of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),
smuggling of goods from the United States, and destruction
of records. (United States of America v. Executive
Recycling, Inc., et al., Case 1:11-cr-00376- WJM, United
States District Court for the District of Colorado.) Executive
Recycling, Inc. collects e-waste from private households,
businesses, and government entities.

5. The indictment alleged that the company represented on its
website that it had “extensive knowledge of current EPA
requirements” and that it would safely dispose collected e-
waste within the United States. Instead, the company
exported over 300 shipments of e-waste overseas,
including more than 100,000 cathode ray tubes (CRTs),
which are known to contain lead.

6. On December 21, 2012, after an 11-day trial, the jury
rendered a guilty verdict on one count of illegal hazardous
waste export, one count of failure to file a Notification of
Intent to Export with EPA, and seven counts of wire fraud.

7. . The export and wire fraud counts each carry a maximum
fine of US$500,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the
offense; the failure to file count carries a maximum fine of
US$50,000 per day of violation or twice the gross gain or
loss from the offense. The jury also convicted two of the
company’s executives on counts of wire fraud, mail fraud,
illegal hazardous waste export, and the destruction,
alteration, or falsification of records in a federal
investigation. Sentencing is scheduled for April

8. Executive Recycling, Inc. was featured in a 2008 exposé on
CBS’s “60 Minutes” news program on e-waste in
developing countries. The “60 Minutes” episode focused on
the environmental and health problems believed to be
associated with the improper disposal of e-waste in China,
Nigeria, and other countries lacking rigorous environmental
regulations and enforcement.

9. E-waste contains hazardous substances such as lead,
chromium, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
dioxins, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The
“60 Minutes” episode showed workers dismantling
discarded consumer electronics to reclaim valuable
materials, such as lead, gold, and copper, from component
parts. Unwanted components were E-waste contains
hazardous substances such as lead, chromium, mercury,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The “60 Minutes”
episode showed workers dismantling discarded consumer
electronics to reclaim valuable materials, such as lead,
gold, and copper, from component parts. Unwanted
components were

10. E-waste contains hazardous substances such as lead,
chromium, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
dioxins, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The
“60 Minutes” episode showed workers dismantling
discarded consumer electronics to reclaim valuable
materials, such as lead, gold, and copper, from component
parts. Unwanted components were E-waste contains
hazardous substances such as lead, chromium, mercury,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The “60 Minutes”
episode showed workers dismantling discarded consumer
electronics to reclaim valuable materials, such as lead,
gold, and copper, from component parts. Unwanted
components were