Dell Readies PC Recycling Programme
News Massachusetts and California have banned CRTs from landfills, and the California state senate is considering a pair of bills that would require retailers to collect a fee for every CRT sold. In the United States, the focus has primarily been on CRT...
[May 17, 2002, 10:50]
Shareholders Take Stock Of Apple
News He declined, but noted that the company has all but eliminated harmful CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors from its product line, with the eMac the only remaining Mac that comes with a CRT display. We might be sitting here next year with none," while...
[April 28, 2006, 11:20]
Government Warning Over Hazardous IT Waste
News The environment agency says the glass in CRT monitors contains heavy metals such as lead and barium and a phosphor coating onto which the beam of electrons is projected to form the image. The new waste standards come just ahead of European...
[June 24, 2005, 15:30]
Lenovo Trumps Apple In Green-tech Ranking
News We have also completely eliminated CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, which contain lead, from our product line," the representative then said. Rather than focusing on recycling, environmentally conscious customers should focus on the toxic chemicals...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
Recycle Your Old PCs
News Older monitors and televisions are especially bad because of all the lead used in the CRT (cathode ray tube) to shield the viewer from radiation. And even in the case of that 10 percent, not all the recycling is done in an environmentally friendly...
[April 24, 2006, 12:05]
Greenpeace Clashes With Apple Over Toxic Waste
News We have also completely eliminated CRT monitors, which contain lead, from our product line," the spokesperson said. Rather than focusing on recycling, the group claims that the toxic chemicals used by tech suppliers should be the main issue...
[August 29, 2006, 13:00]
Photos: Re-use Don't Recycle, Says Computer Aid
News Old CRT monitors (pictured) are a good example of Computer Aid's approach to making the best use of old tech. Following the long-awaited enforcement of the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive into UK law on 2 July...
[July 5, 2007, 15:59]
Recycling Special Report: First Steps To Cleaner Computing
News April marked the first anniversary of a law in Massachusetts that bans CRT (cathode-ray tube) monitors from landfills, and other states are considering similar measures. In the US, a first step in a cooperative approach to recycling came last month...
[June 18, 2001, 14:02]
The African E-waste Conundrum
Blog One of the organisations that Computer Aid works with - Computers for Schools Kenya - even makes use of defunct CRT monitors by turning them into TVs. There is a different attitude to recycling in Africa - it's not seen as a new fad - but rather...
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
Recycling Special Report: Designing PCs For The Environment
News The increasing popularity of flat-panel screens as a replacement for CRT monitors, for instance, could reduce the risks posed by lead but would probably introduce a greater amount of mercury into the equation.
[June 18, 2001, 14:00]
Old PCs Go To Jail
News California bans CRT monitors from landfills, out of worries that lead and other metals could leach into water supplies. Inmates at a new federal prison in California will soon be able to join the high-tech economy via the burgeoning field of...
[February 16, 2002, 6:31]
Dangerous Waste Creates Disposal Dilemma
Leader If the legal requirement kicks in after the peak in CRT replacement, that's a lot of money saved that will never need to be spent. If we do not see a swift resolution to this matter, then may we suggest a further class of obsolete equipment be...
[August 11, 2005, 13:40]
The Curse Of The AC Adapter
Blog Other occupants of the recycling pile tell an interesting story of tech archaeology: analogue video leads, serial and parallel cables, CRT monitors, PS/2 mice and keyboards. Many will therefore be dispatched for recycling, or wherever PSUs go to die.
[March 29, 2007, 13:32]
Tackling The Problem Of High-tech Trash
News A: If you're talking about the most hazardous component when high-tech electronics are disposed of, I would easily pick the cathode-ray tube (CRT) — bulky screens that are our traditional desktops and televisions — because that glass in the screen...
[July 7, 2006, 12:35]
