What happens to old CRT monitors?
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From: William Sommerwerck on 19 Mar 2010 09:45 >> 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. Well, we've seen a lot of electronic equipment shipped off to third-world countries for recycling.
From: William R. Walsh on 19 Mar 2010 12:07 Hi! > Surely they do get recycled somehow or is it landfill? They can be recycled. Hewlett Packard once had a section of their web site devoted to a tour of their recycling facility. In it, they showed people dismantling laptops and other things. The details are fuzzy in my memory, but they shredded and ground circuit boards (with components) into a fine substance that was screened to split it out. Plastics were smelted. I don't know what happened to CRT and other glass. William
From: William R. Walsh on 19 Mar 2010 12:59 Hi! > If you put your CRT monitor under your pillow the CRT Fairy will > take it and leave a shiny new penny. I was hoping for a shiny new flat panel, ya know? I didn't sleep well and all I got was a crick in my neck and a headache. <g> William
From: Baron on 19 Mar 2010 18:07 Robert Macy Inscribed thus: > 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. No apology needed. The guy freely admits that it was his own fault for not making sure the machine was isolated and made safe before working on it. Just to give you an idea of the guys nature, he has a pair of prosthetic legs that are hollow at the bottom, he hides his girlfriend's weed in them. His standing joke is "I've weed in my legs" ! He's a really nice guy. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: DCA on 19 Mar 2010 20:56
mm wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:58:43 GMT, Chris Whelan > <cawhelan(a)prejudicentlworld.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:32 +0000, Mike Tomlinson 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. >> What's to recycle? >> >> Chris > > What I'd like to konw about is this story of lead and it poisoning the > earth. I thought 99% of the lead waa mixed with the glass in the > front of the CRT and the only part that could leach out is a small > part along the surface. So what's the danger? Lead in the ground is not a problem (I mean, that's where is comes from!) It is however a problem in waterways. I was advised of this whilst discussing the amount of lead I was blasting into the countryside last time I went shooting (shotgun/clays). |