What happens to old CRT monitors?
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From: Mike Tomlinson on 18 Mar 2010 02:23 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$ta reloaded. (")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png
From: Chris Whelan on 18 Mar 2010 03:58 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:32 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote: > What happens to old CRT monitors when the PC disposal man turns up in > his white van to take them away? The company I work for has just got > rid of a huge quantity of monitors. > > Surely they do get recycled somehow or is it landfill? The tube has all > sorts of toxic nasties in it. What's to recycle? Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Mike Tomlinson on 18 Mar 2010 04:07 In article <T2lon.2774$P_5.412(a)newsfe15.ams2>, Chris Whelan <cawhelan(a)pr ejudicentlworld.com> writes > >What's to recycle? Plastic case? I also seem to remember that the tube electron guns contain a small amount of precious metal and the "recyclers" send them out to the third world where the tube necks are broken and the guns extracted, then the rest is abandoned. -- (\__/) (='.'=) Bunny says Windows 7 is Vi$ta reloaded. (")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png
From: Sylvia Else on 18 Mar 2010 04:18 On 18/03/2010 7:07 PM, Mike Tomlinson wrote: > In article<T2lon.2774$P_5.412(a)newsfe15.ams2>, Chris Whelan<cawhelan(a)pr > ejudicentlworld.com> writes >> >> What's to recycle? > > Plastic case? I also seem to remember that the tube electron guns > contain a small amount of precious metal and the "recyclers" send them > out to the third world where the tube necks are broken and the guns > extracted, then the rest is abandoned. > Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, literally. Sylvia.
From: mm on 18 Mar 2010 04:24
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? |