On Mar 18, 1:20*pm, "Raj Kundra" raj@REM0VE
THISkundracomputers.co.uk wrote:
"Les Matthew" wrote in message

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On 18/03/2010 06:23, 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.

Front Glass (viewing area) which could be up to 1" thick on some large
models is very high in lead contents.

Until recent EU legislation on lead crystal processing: these front bits
were sliced and shipped to factories in Germany.
see:
http://www.ban.org/ban_news/2009/091...recyclers.html

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/to...cling-20090218

Apparently there's even a town called 'HP Laserjet' because of the
accumulated printers dumped by the west:
http://www.up.edu.pe/serv/boletin/01...&serv _key=13