Cathode tube TV: what to do?

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Cathode tube TV: what to do?




by martien007 » 10/06/08, 17:42

A mountain of old cathode ray tube TVs that give up or will give up in the coming months and years?

Fighting to recycle old TVs

By Emmanuel ANGLEYS AFP - PARIS (AFP) -

The madness of flat screens threatens to lead to a mountain of waste in a few years, worry professionals in the sector who have put in place a battle plan to collect and recycle old TVs.

Of the 5,5 million televisions that reach the end of their life each year in France, only 20% take the path of a selective treatment channel, protests Laurent Abadie, vice-president of the Union of electronic audiovisual equipment industries (Simavelec).

"The rest disappears in nature, that's what we want to avoid," he says.

Leaving such equipment to rot in a landfill presents obvious risks of pollution inherent in their components.

And time is running out because the arrival of flat screens will give a boost to the renewal of the park, still made up of 3/4 of old cathode ray tube sets.

With a household equipment rate of over 95%, the television market is primarily a renewal market, stimulated by technological change.

In 2006, LCD or plasma flat screens represented one sale in two, in 2007, three in four, and in 2008, it will be 100%, predicts Simavelec.

The number of devices to be recycled will reach 6 million in 2013, 7 million in 2016.

Suddenly, professionals in the sector are preparing to work hard to stem this flood of tired screens.

The objective is to collect half of the TV sets that will be scrapped by 2009, and seven out of ten by 2013.

For 2008, Simavelec hopes to collect and process more than 40.000 tonnes of breathless TVs compared to 24.000 tonnes in 2007.

Take-off due to the recent implementation (November 15, 2006) of the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in accordance with a European directive.

2007 was the first full year of operational operation for the three eco-organizations responsible for collecting and processing this equipment - Ecologic, Eco-Systèmes and ERP.

But all this at a cost: 30 million euros should be spent in 2008 on the collection and treatment of televisions at the end of their life, 100 million in the medium term.

More and more old cathode ray tube TVs will have to be recycled even though we will no longer know what to do with their glass (60% of their weight) which was previously recycled to make cathode ray tubes.

In addition, it takes more time to dismantle a flat screen than a CRT screen, for a lower average unit weight, and therefore less recoverable material.

"We spend more time dismantling screens than assembling them", quips René-Louis Perrier, president of Ecologic.

A flat screen is boned like a mille-feuille, with first a hundred screws to remove, the plastic carcass to release, the steel structure to recover, the glass slab to remove etc.

“We are in essentially manual technologies, therefore expensive,” Ecologic points out.

The financing of the operations is for the moment assured thanks to the receipts of the Eco-participation, which is from 4 to 8 euros per device.

The eco-organizations hope that this contribution requested from the consumer will not increase and therefore rely on the productivity gains that could be achieved with the increase in the volumes to be treated.


source news yahoo.fr

Long live the consumer society: we no longer know what to do with waste !! for example the glass of cathode ray tubes!

and new screens are more difficult to recycle than old TVs : Shock: .... we learn it every day.
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by Christophe » 10/06/08, 17:48

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by georges100 » 10/06/08, 17:49

the lifespan of flat screens will also be shorter ...
They are more complicated and therefore more expensive to repair, the breakeven point of repair being higher and they will go to the trash faster than cathodics ...
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