what the hay - Page 3

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

Hope you mean she was going to pay you.

I wish, that's what she wanted me to pay for it. I told her it wasn't even worth it at that price and told her what I do to them and she came back with "Yeah yeah, I see it on the news. People like you take this stuff apart and ship the rest to third world countries". Told her I was part of a network of scrappers where this doesn't happen but have yet to hear from her on the matter.

There have been numerous recent threads about CRTs and the difficulty in handling them properly and following the federal and various state regulations.

I am writing this only to be informative, not trying to bust anybody's balls or give anyone a hard time.

I am going to post a link to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency "Export requirements for Cathode Ray Tubes" at the end of this post. Everyone needs to know that there are only a handful, maybe only 1 or 2, US companies that can completely process (and do it according to all regulations) CRTs. In the EPA website, there is a list (only 2 companies) that are approved to export CRTs for recycling. These approvals are good until April and August of 2015. There are only 3 countries were CRTs can currently be exported to (Canada, Mexico and Netherlands). There are numerous companies listed that can export for re-use. If you are in a predictament, you may want to look thru this list. I will warn people that things have changed dramatically in the last year or so. I had discuss CRT recycling with one of these companies about 18 months ago. At that time, they would pay for CRTs. Now they don't want them.

Some of you may want to read up on what is required to become one of those companies that are certified to export, either for recycling or for re-use.

I would strongly recommend that anyone currently or planning on doing E-waste and specifically CRTs to read thru the information at this link. Before you jump into something, you need to be fully informed. This goes for other scrap items, like refrigerant bearing items, in addition to CRTs. I know some people get easily annoyed with posts like this, so again, I'm not trying to tell anyone how to run their operations, just to do some research before you get yourself in a bind.

Export Requirements for Cathode Ray Tubes | International Waste Activities | US EPA

Happy scrapping to all of you and may the new year be more profitable than last.

Just got off the phone with NuLife in Dunkirk and they said they take the tubes only not the whole monitor so that's where all CRTs and TVs that come my way are going. The guy was explaining to me that their furnace is similar to the one that's used in the Corning house of glass museum and that everything's self-contained. The guy also said they'd take a min of a half truck load and went on that I could make my money back on just the casing and boards alone so I'm game. I believe what NuLife does is what this country needs in solving its CRT waste problem.

-Matt

Originally Posted by logansryche

Just got off the phone with NuLife in Dunkirk and they said they take the tubes only not the whole monitor so that's where all CRTs and TVs that come my way are going. The guy was explaining to me that their furnace is similar to the one that's used in the Corning house of glass museum and that everything's self-contained. The guy also said they'd take a min of a half truck load and went on that I could make my money back on just the casing and boards alone so I'm game. I believe what NuLife does is what this country needs in solving its CRT waste problem.

-Matt

Matt,

Appreciate you looking into this. I've known about them for a while, just never had the time to investigate them further. I do question their statement about being able to make your money back on the casing and the boards. As you may know, many of us here have not found an outlet for the plastic that we run into, or at least not something cost effect. I could ship to someone like Mario or Carolina E-cycle, but the cost per pound to ship is too high to turn a profit. I have located a company that seems to be interested in plastics generated by E-scrappers. I'm going to post that information in a new thread. Since you did such a great job investigating NuLife, I'm hoping that you could do the same with this one. I do have one more question for you about NuLife. Do they require the metal strap around the large end of the funnel (near the face panel) to be removed?

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Here's what I've found so far, have not investigated further.
CRT Recycling - TV Recycling - Monitor Recycling - CRT Glass | ECS Refining

CRT Monitor Recycling | CRT Television Recycling | Sims Recycling US

I dunno if someone's asleep over there at ECS but no one messaged me back after numerious attempts at contacting them so I'd nix them from any list. Also not sure about else where but NY had SIMS pull all their centers due to lack of conformity. Glad to know there's a list there(google didn't give me many results past ECS util it was suggested I look into NuLife).

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

Matt, Appreciate you looking into this. I've known about them for a while, just never had the time to investigate them further. I do question their statement about being able to make your money back on the casing and the boards. As you may know, many of us here have not found an outlet for the plastic that we run into, or at least not something cost effect. I could ship to someone like Mario or Carolina E-cycle, but the cost per pound to ship is too high to turn a profit. I have located a company that seems to be interested in plastics generated by E-scrappers. I'm going to post that information in a new thread. Since you did such a great job investigating NuLife, I'm hoping that you could do the same with this one. I do have one more question for you about NuLife. Do they require the metal strap around the large end of the funnel (near the face panel) to be removed?

I'm guessing John meant that one could charge per CRT or TV to offset the processing charge(like I'm going to do) and they want just the tube so I'm guessing take off everything you can, then ship them the rest(but don't break anything). I won't be updating or answering questions about CRTs on this thread anymore as it surved it's purpose so if you have any further questions, look for the thread 'NuLife for CRTs' or pm me your quesion.

-Matt