CRT recycling plant opens in Australia

Archiv – Said to be the first of its kind in Australia, a specialised cathode ray tube (CRT) recycling facility is scheduled to open in March at Gepps Cross in South Australia. According to operator CRT Recycling Australia, the A$ 700 000 venture will boast a capacity of 30 000 tonnes per annum and is expected to process 500 000 CRT screens this year.Australia | Said to be the first of its kind in Australia, a specialised cathode ray tube (CRT) recycling facility is scheduled to open in March at Gepps Cross in South Australia. According to operator CRT Recycling Australia, the A$ 700 000 venture will boast a capacity of 30 000 tonnes per annum and is expected to process 500 000 CRT screens this year.
Machinery imported from Germany has been installed by CRT Recycling Australia to recycle the estimated 1.5 million televisions and monitors currently landfilled each year. A significant volume of CRT televisions will end up in landfill as a result of the announcement of additional digital-only, free-to-air channels for this year and of the July 2010 analogue switch-off in country areas.
Michelle Morton, Founder and CEO of CRT Recycling Australia, comments: ’This service is going to allow Australia to catch up with the rest of the world. It has the capacity to divert large amounts of hazardous materials into a product that is in high demand for glass-to-glass recycling applications; it should no longer be acceptable for landfill to be an available option.’