For more information on e-Stewards certification and to find a certified e-waste recycler in your area, visit. BAN has created a certification program for responsible recyclers called e-Stewards. These are serious issues, and as these cities struggle to resolve them, we need to be mindful of how our e-waste is recycled and by whom. The responsible party is the now defunct recycler, CDM eCycling. The abandoned warehouse in that city houses around 3,000 containers filled with CRT glass. The CRT glass piled up and they too went out of business. There is approximately 750 tons of hazardous waste contained in these deserted trailers, and Luminous Recycling is currently out of business.Īnother story out of Baltimore tells of a company that was unable to find locations to ship the CRT glass for processing. Luminous Recycling rented 25 semi-truck trailers and filled them with toxic CRT glass and then abandoned the trailers. If reuse or repair are not practical options, CRTs can be recycled.
EPA encourages repair and reuse as a responsible ways to manage CRTs. There have been other incidents of CRT abandonment. Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) A cathode ray tube (CRT) is the glass video display component of an electronic device (usually a television or computer monitor).
CRT glass is considered under international law to be a hazardous waste.” In the case of the abandoned CRT glass in Arizona, neither law was followed.Īccording to BAN, these laws are important because CRT glass is “covered with toxic cadmium compound laden phosphors and the glass itself is laden with the toxic metal lead. And, under federal law, it is illegal to amass CRT glass for recycling for longer than one year.
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According to BAN, “Dow was paid more than $581,000 by California Recyclers to take the glass, who were in turn paid $3.6 million from a California legislated recycling fund.”īy law, every time a consumer in California buys a new TV or computer display, he or she pays a fee that is used to pay to have the electronic waste properly recycled when it reaches the end of its useful life. They in turn paid this third-party recycler, Dow Management, to do the same.
The state program paid California recyclers to dispose of this e-waste in a responsible manner. Most of the CRT glass is sourced from picture tubes of old TVs and computer monitors collected by California’s state recycling program. Nobody from the company, Dow Management, can be found, but more than 9 million pounds of toxic CRT glass is left sitting in three warehouses in Yuma, AZ. Recently, the environmental organization Basel Action Network (BAN) joined with CBS News in California to expose a company that abandoned toxic cathode ray tube glass that it had been paid to recycle. The ramifications of choosing a bad recycling company are far reaching, from mass dumping of electronic waste overseas, to toxins leaching into groundwater and being released into the air. Just like any business, there are companies that are excellent and strive to do a good job and there are companies that are more concerned with making money than doing the right thing.
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