What happens to old CRT monitors?
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From: Robert Macy on 19 Mar 2010 06:05 On Mar 18, 2:54 pm, Baron <baron.nos...(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: > Robert Macy Inscribed thus: > > > > > > > On Mar 18, 5:38 am, baron <baron.nos...(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: > >> Mike Tomlinson Inscribed thus: > > >> > What happens to old CRT monitors when the PC disposal man turns up > >> > in his white van to take them away? The company I work for has > >> > just got rid of a huge quantity of monitors. > > >> > Surely they do get recycled somehow or is it landfill? The tube > >> > has all sorts of toxic nasties in it. > > >> If they are anything like our disposal people they get crushed and > >> the glass gets recycled. All the metal is recovered and recycled > >> too. > > >> -- > >> Best Regards: > >> Baron. > > > "..they all get crushed.." and we all know how painful that can be. > > ;) > > Yes very painful... > > Actually a guy who used to work at the crushing mill lives round the > corner from me. He got trapped by one of the three crusher balls and > lost both his legs. > > -- > Best Regards: > Baron. Horrible. My apologies.
From: Albert Ross on 19 Mar 2010 08:37 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:38:15 -0000, Daniel James <daniel(a)me.invalid> wrote: >In article <T2lon.2774$P_5.412(a)newsfe15.ams2>, Chris Whelan wrote: >> What's to recycle? > >Quite a lot of glass, for one thing. > >A former colleague told me of an interesting experience he'd had in a >former life (job) getting rid of a decommissioned mainframe. He had all >sorts of quotes from people wanting to charge him for disposing of the >kit, and a local scrap dealer offering to /pay/ him for it. It turned >out that mainframes of that age had enough gold in their contacts for >it to be worth recovering it (by dissolving it in cyanide, I gather -- >don't stand downwind!). The cabinets would have been good for scrap >metal, the rest was probably landfill. There's a garden near here which has an imitation Stonehenge made of mainframe cases True about the gold, and the monitors going overseas for "recycling" When a private school near where I used to live replaced its computers they piled the old ones up in the garden and had a bonfire. You could smell it for miles. Do NOT try this at home
From: Sansui Samari on 19 Mar 2010 08:56 On Mar 17, 11:23 pm, Mike Tomlinson <m...(a)jasper.org.uk> wrote: > What happens to old CRT monitors when the PC disposal man turns up in > his white van to take them away? The company I work for has just got > rid of a huge quantity of monitors. > > Surely they do get recycled somehow or is it landfill? The tube has all > sorts of toxic nasties in it. > > -- > (\__/) > (='.'=) Bunny says Windows 7 is Vi$ta reloaded. > (")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png Pretty much everything can be salvage from most electronics, if you do it correctly. Plastic can be reground and reused So can glass Some chips and expensive components are extracted and reused Components containing high amounts of precious metals or pure metals are removed for separate recycling Remaining boards and components can usually be ground up to remove remaining metals through various processes Substrate material left after extracting the metals can be remade into all sorts of stuff
From: William Sommerwerck on 19 Mar 2010 09:11 You'd think that, given the high prices of gold and copper, it would be profitable to recycle monitors.
From: Jim Yanik on 19 Mar 2010 09:33
"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer(a)comcast.net> wrote in news:hnvt6m$thc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > You'd think that, given the high prices of gold and copper, it would be > profitable to recycle monitors. > > > Labor cost is probably the reason. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com |