What happens to old CRT monitors?
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From: Jeff Liebermann on 21 Mar 2010 00:38 On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:58:33 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus <jangus(a)suddenlink.net> wrote: >Then proceeded to throw laptops, PC desk tops and finally >a complete 4-drawer filing cabinet through truck mounted >wood chipper. About 20 years ago, the landlord in my office building was running an office cleaning company[1] with a paper shredder sideline. The paper shredder was about the size of a large dumpster. Every day, a pickup truck load of paper would arrive and get fed to the hungry monster, producing mountains of confetti and dust. Dust and debris would also fall from the ceiling as my office shook and rattled from the vibrations. This went on for about 6 months until someone accidentally fed it the hand truck used to load the paper. I would normally expect the shredder to just stop or to disassemble itself, but that's not what happened. The interlocking teeth froze, the overload switch failed, which caused the huge motor to rip away from its mountings, smash through the side of the shredder, smash through a decorative wood wall, and bounce off the landlords wife's car. That was followed by a dumpster full of paper confetti initially all over the parking lot, and later all over the offices, nearby roadway, neighbors apartments, etc. It took about 3 full days for a crew to clean up the mess. Sorry, but I was gone and didn't take any photos. A few weeks later, the landlord sold the shredding business to someone else, who still run it out of an industrial park today. [1] My office was required to have the curtains closed because it created a bad impression for the office cleaning service. -- # Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060 # 831-336-2558 # http://802.11junk.com jeffl(a)cruzio.com # http://www.LearnByDestroying.com AE6KS
From: Peter Hill on 21 Mar 2010 06:13 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:32 +0000, Mike Tomlinson <mike(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. Domestic CRTs get put in wheelie bin and go to landfill. Same as all those ECO friendly bulbs that contain mercury. OK a few do get taken to the tip. CRTs/electronics go in a container. They have a sealed "coffin" with a tube sized airlock for tubes. The last time I took some they seemed quite surprised, I think most people just break them to fit the wheelie bin. I'm about to see they how get on with 3 ECO bulbs. I've got 2 5ft tubes, a car battery, 10L engine oil, 3 oil filters, 2 14" CRTs, 1L brake fluid to go too, bet I have to sign for every item in triplicate due to toxic nature of them. Industry has larger batch volume, hard to hide, more likely to be traced to source and the penalties make it worth doing the right thing with them. -- Peter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!
From: Peter Hill on 21 Mar 2010 06:15 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:47:02 -0700 (PDT), Robert Macy <macy(a)california.com> wrote: >On Mar 18, 1:38�am, Daniel James <dan...(a)me.invalid> wrote: >> In article <T2lon.2774$P_5....(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. >> >> Cheers, >> �Daniel. > >the Zilog Development system has over $320 of gold in it. What?? Tell me more, I've not found it. MCZ-1/05, MCZ-1/20? -- Peter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 21 Mar 2010 06:21 On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:13:08 +0000, Peter Hill <peter.usenet1(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:32 +0000, Mike Tomlinson ><mike(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. > >Domestic CRTs get put in wheelie bin and go to landfill. > >Same as all those ECO friendly bulbs that contain mercury. That's just ignorant fools doing it wrong. Big surprise. Our wheelie bins have stickers on with a whole bunch of "Don't put these things in here - put them in the recycle bin or take them down your local recycler". >OK a few do get taken to the tip. CRTs/electronics go in a container. >They have a sealed "coffin" with a tube sized airlock for tubes. The >last time I took some they seemed quite surprised, I think most people >just break them to fit the wheelie bin. I'm about to see they how get >on with 3 ECO bulbs. I've got 2 5ft tubes, a car battery, 10L engine >oil, 3 oil filters, 2 14" CRTs, 1L brake fluid to go too, bet I have >to sign for every item in triplicate due to toxic nature of them. Our local tip has a half-container that's always fairly full of TVs and monitors, a half-container that's always fairly full of random electronics (mostly PCs and stereos), and a sort of enclosed skip affair for fluoro lamp tubes large and small. Plus a lovely greasy used engine oil thing. It doesn't have anywhere specific for oil filters or brake fluid, as far as I know, but I've never had to recycle those. Cheers - Jaimie -- There are no normal people--only people you don't know very much about. -- Nancy Lebovitz, rasfw
From: Rob Morley on 21 Mar 2010 08:18
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:21:35 +0000 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > Our local tip has a half-container that's always fairly full of TVs > and monitors, a half-container that's always fairly full of random > electronics (mostly PCs and stereos), and a sort of enclosed skip > affair for fluoro lamp tubes large and small. Plus a lovely greasy > used engine oil thing. Ours too, except it's a "recycling centre", not a tip. :-) |