The owners of a company in Seattle, which was paid millions to safely recycle electronics for the city, pleaded guilty last week in a U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Jeff Zirkle, 55, and Craig Lorch, 61, owned Total Reclaim, where they recycled electronics for the city of Seattle and other customers and also handled e-waste for the E-Cycle Washington program. However, instead of safely recycling the electronics they collected, Zirkle and Lorch secretly sent the electronics to Hong Kong for disposal.
