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How Many CRTs Remain? In a new survey 46% of households have at least one CRT and 41% report at least one CRT TV-- 6 bn pounds of TVs and 1 bn pounds of monitors. 44 percent reported getting rid of a CRT TV and 27 percent removed a PC monitor in the past 5 years...More (CEA and NCER)

 CRT Storage & Capacity: Between 2013 and 2022, 6.2 million tons of devices with CRT displays will enter the U.S. e-scrap stream. 330,000 tons of CRT glass are already stockpiled and abandoned. Rising volume of CRTs in need of processing outweighs US capacity...More (Resource Recycling)

Cellphones in Mothballs: Survey shows 57% of households have idle cellphones. 86% believe recycling helps the environment, but only half would consider recycling, and only 22% actually recycle...More (EcoATM)

E-Waste Recycling Record: The U.S. consumer electronics industry recycled a record 620 million pounds in 2013, according to a new report from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), up 35 million pounds over 2012 and double the 300 million pounds recycled in 2010...More (Waste Management World).

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Removing lead from the bulk of the glass, as opposed to the surface and areas closely adjacent to the surface, allows production of recycled glass that includes substantially no lead within its boundaries...More

Aluminum recovery with a tilting rotary furnace: The seal between a rotating door and the furnace vessel allows for regulation of the internal environment of the furnace so aluminum may be recovered without the use of salt...More

Separating magnetic pieces of scrap with a conveyor to a separating zone, in which the scrap-is subjected to a magnetic field and to gravitational forces....More  

Chlorinating recoverable metals in ore, slag, mill scale, scrap, dust and other resources by recovering metal chlorides from a salt melt...More