Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
I don't see why the glass in CRT's can't be recycled into decorative glass items or used as an aggregate in cement. It would also seem that it could be used as an insulator for electrical equipment.
I think it's more about the phosphorus dust inside the tube rather then the lead because lead in small amounts isn't that harmful(if it were, crt's wouldnt've been built in the first place). I read somewhere that some places add a mineralized liquid to the tube to bring all that dust to a solid at the center so that it can be treated as it is. The lead on the other hand I don't get how they'd get out but then again, I've seen too many youtube videos of folks just smashing the glass into pieces and recycle the pieces as glass(not saying I'd do that, just what I found).