Executive Recycling is an
Englewood, Colorado
The City of Englewood is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 33,659 at the 2020 United States Census. Englewood is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Stati ...
-based business specializing in
electronic waste recycling.
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''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique styl ...
'' linked Executive Recycling to the illegal export of electronic waste from the Denver area to Guiyu Guiyu may refer to:
*''Guiyu oneiros'' (鬼鱼), extinct bony fish
*Guiyu (town)
Guiyu () is a Towns of China, town created from an agglomerate of four adjoined villages totalling 150,000 people in the Chaoyang District, Shantou, Chaoyang distric ...
, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. In the report, the company also was found to have illegally offered to help an undercover investigative team to ship more than 1,500 CRT (cathode ray tube
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. The images may represent electrical waveforms ( oscilloscope), pictu ...
) monitors and 1,200 CRT TVs to Hong Kong for recycling purposes. The story added that the federal government has issued a search warrant to investigate Executive Recycling's actions. Until November 2008, Executive Recycling was partnered with Colorado's Governor's Office of Economic Development to assist in recycling pickup events.
In response to the ''60 Minutes'' report, Executive Recycling issued a statement claiming that they "... discovered that forged documents (provided by the port authorities) were used to improperly shift blame to us when ER (Executive Recycling) sold the tested working units to a Canadian wholesale buyer. We are currently seeking legal actions against this one wholesale buyer in regards to this report." When asked by the ''Denver Business Journal'' about how other Executive Recycling shipments had illegally made their way from Colorado to China, as ''60 Minutes'' had reported, the company's CEO, Brandon Richter, did not answer the questions.
As of December 2012, both the CEO and vice president of Executive Recycling have been convicted "of multiple counts of mail and wire fraud and environmental crimes related to the illegal disposal of electronic waste, smuggling, and obstruction of justice, following an 11-day trial."
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*{{cite web, url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/executive-recycling-company-and-executives-sentenced-fraud-and-international, title=Executive Recycling Company And Executives Sentenced For Fraud And International Environmental Crimes, date=23 July 2013, work=justice.gov
Electronic waste in the United States
Companies based in Englewood, Colorado