CRT Recycling.

If it's this easy to remove the lead from CRT monitors and TV's then why is it that we're still charged out the yahoo for recycling these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoLWdssIho

3 letters...EPA

The system probably doesn't extract a high enough % of lead (ie some is left in the glass...he did say you don't want to make glasses with it). There is probably enough waste left over that it wouldn't pass our environmental laws.

that is my take.

Because of the less than 100% removal of the lead from all the glass there is little or no market for that glass. Then it will have to placed in an EPA approved landfill. And all the transportation costs, admin costs for all the hoop jumping involved. further is this at best a dying business since I expect very little leaded glass is being produced for new goods so the end of this cycle is approaching soon.

In my mind the leaded glass is unlikely to release the lead unless the glass is disturbed. So why not melt it and put it in the special land fills and leave it be. Mike

not saying to much about safety since I do the same things, but here just those workers not wearing masks as the tvs are smashed with loaders or falling on each other on conveyers and so forth though that video would make the epa and osha scream here. here in the us we have a limit for arsenic and lead in glass beads we use in pavement markings and beds that is much lower than other countries mainly because of food production along these major roadways.
there is still a large market for leaded glass doors and windows but here also in the usa we have better ways of recycling lead glass even machines that are completely sealed that process whole tvs and though a series of steps claim most lead kind of like battery recycling

It is also worth mentioning that it takes a LOT of natural gas to heat glass past melting point ... also, leaded glass is still sold for decorative items for some reason ...

Leaded glass is stronger and can be made pressed in molds, etc. it's why its used for decorative.

The leaded glass can be used as aggregate for radiation shielding or scientific experiment shielding in walls. In that form it is inert and without intervention from physical wear or chemicals doesnt leech.