Touting itself as the nation's first "urban mining" electronic-waste recycling plant, BlueOak Arkansas hasn't yet lived up to its billing, either as a recycler or as an investment, but its chief executive officer said last week that he believes the company will meet the goals it set in 2014. Former Vice President Al Gore attended the groundbreaking ceremony in Osceola in 2014 for the $35 million plant, where up to 75 workers making average annual wages of $50,000 were to recycle gold, silver, copper and other metals from discarded cellphones, computer circuit boards and other electronics through an environmentally friendly high-temperature electric plasma furnace.
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