PDO in a BOX:
Part of the Solution to the Digital Transition
Government Aims to End Trash Exporting:
DTV Transition: The Importance of Establishing PDOs
Pros & Cons of Lead-Based Glass Disposal Methods
Part II: Should we Educate residents to hang onto their old analog TVs or Recycle them?
* Of electronic products sold between 1980 and 2007, approximately 235 million units had accumulated in storage as of 2007.
Estimated Number of Units in Storage as of 2007 Product Type number (million units)
| Desktop Computers | 65.7 |
| Computer Monitors | 42.4 |
| Portable Computers (notebooks) | 2.1 |
| Televisions | 99.1 |
| Hard Copy Peripherals | 25.2 |
These statistics are from:
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/
Specific communities in your state have an environmentally sound solution available to the influx of analog TVs expected to flood the waste stream because of the Digital TV Transition.
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E-waste has reached monumental proportions over the recent years due to the availability of consumer electronics! In the U.S. alone, over 300 million lbs of obsolete computers have accumulated over the last decade. At current rates, another 300 million lbs. will be added over the next 5 years.
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· Electronics Recycling
Glass
to Glass recycling involves “de-manufacturing” complete monitors,
terminals and televisions into their individual pieces/categories
and parts to be re-sold to commodities buyers who sell the re-used
materials back to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The
de-manufacturing process produces plastics, low grade boards, color
gun necks, aluminum bearing parts, copper bearing parts, and the
lead based CRT tubes separated in the proper glass category sorts
required by the manufacturers who buy back the glass materials. They
currently re-use the glass material in new analog monitor and TV
production.
De-manufacturing the glass materials involves separating the front panel glass from the funnel tube glass which contains 4-8 pounds of lead depending on the size of the monitor and/or television. Glass to Glass processing requires Processors to "cancel" the glass by breaking it up into rock-like chunks to be stored in gay lord boxes and then properly sealed via "hazardous material" standards (hazmat) to avoid lead based dust particles from escaping into the air. The separation of the different types of glass can also be done with machines that cut the glass via “laser beam type” technology.
Once it is packaged to EPA standards, it is then shipped in 40 foot containers back to one of the 9 plants in Asia (owned by the TV manufacturers and monitor manufacturers). It is then re-used in the manufacturing of more analog lead based glass products. That is why it's called "glass to glass" recycling; It truly follows a complete circle of End of Life (EOL) management whereby everything gets re-used and nothing goes in land fills or gets discarded as waste.
The main raw materials by weight and volume are lead and silica (glass). EOL practices which follow the product's full life circle, from beginning to end, re-using 100% of the materials are by definition "GREEN". Therefore, the only method for recycling lead based glass that is truly "GREEN" is "glass to glass". The glass-to-glass recycling method creates 20 jobs for every 500 units of lead based glass processed daily. This method creates 60 jobs per glass de-manufacturing plant, running three work shifts to process an estimated 400,000 televisions per year or in the case of the laser beam technology machines an estimated 800,000 per year.
The US is sitting on a minimum of 274 million televisions that will be disposed of in the next 2-8 years due to the FCC mandate on switching the television signal from analog to digital technology in 2009. The US will need 40-70 "Green" de-manufacturing plants ("glass to glass") constructed to handle and dispose of the televisions properly nationwide if legislation banning lead based glass from land fills passes nationally. This figure is for televisions only, and does not take into account the lead based computer monitors; however, an additional assembly line could be added to accommodate monitors and terminals and we could also double the labor to handle the quantities of lead based analog monitors.
This method is the only GREEN method in existence, albeit the most expensive of the 4 methods to recycle lead based glass. Although it costs money to be GREEN, it produces many jobs and exponentially has so many WIN/WIN arguments that it should be mandated.
Click to see our section on the "Pros & Cons of Lead Based Glass Disposal Methods".
Our Mission is three-fold:
To cost effectively avoid sending any electronics to landfills.
To educate businesses and schools about how inexpensive it can
be and/or to show them how to recover some value at the end of
the life cycle for their equipment.
To be the "Cost"
Model that our Industry uses as the new standard in Electronic
Recycling.