Lead recovery and recycling from cathode ray tube (CRT) glass represent a significant challenge and opportunity in the management of electronic waste. CRT glass, particularly from the funnel section, ...

Nulife Glass, a Manchester, England-based recycling specialist, will be opening its first U.S. facility in Chautauqua County. The company is investing $3.7 million to renovate a 50,000-square-foot ...

While it will be illegal under state recycling law to throw out computers, televisions and other electronic devices starting Jan. 1, the state is still trying to figure out what to do about a glut of ...

For decades, American families spent evenings gathered around the flickering lights of cathode ray tube (CRT) television sets and connected their desktop computer towers to boxy, tube-powered monitors ...

The video “Exporting harm,” released by the Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN) in 2001, displayed a litany of bad environmental and worker safety practices taking place in Guiyu, China, in the ...

Toxic glass from old-style television sets and computer monitors could end up polluting landfills if new uses for them are not found soon, scientists warn. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

If you have an old TV you want to get rid of for free, you might want to move fast. Eight months into a new ban on electronics in landfills, recycling options are dwindling for older-model televisions ...

The cathode ray tube is dead. “Rust in peace,” ministered the New York Times in its 2009 catalogue of obsolescence for the aughts. The obvious play on words conjoins an industrial mythos with a ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, a Russian scientist named Boris Rosing was experimenting with a cathode ray tube (CRT) when he managed to deflect electron beams in a way that displayed simple ...