Innovators sought for new CRT Challenge

Global – The Consumer Electronics Association, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and InnoCentive have joined forces to launch this year’s CRT Challenge – the industry competition which sets out to identify innovative and financially viable methods of recycling cathode ray tube (CRT) glass. Proposals for the CRT Challenge must be submitted by June 30 this year and will be judged according to economic and environmental benefits. The winning idea will win US$ 10 000 as well as help in commercialising the recycling concept.

Last year’s CRT Challenge attracted more than 350 entries, of which the top three were: Spanish environmental engineer Mario Rosato for his closed-loop leaded glass separation process; UK-based Nulife Glass with its emission-minimising CRT glass furnace; and New Mexico-based mechanical engineer Robert Kirby for a proposal to combine CRT glass with cement to create a composite building material.

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