CRT Dumping Is Becoming More Common

That is insane! I hope the EPA goes after the leaseholder of that property.

I bet there's an interesting story there. Judging by the sheetrock in the receptionist area of the building there was an attempt made at a business startup of some kind. Looks like they ran out of money because the new sheetrock didn't make it to the point where it got painted.

All the CRT's out back in the warehouse could have been related to that somehow.

It would be pretty hard to handle that many CRT's & TVs without leaving any fingerprints. That might be a starting point.

Maybe set up a couple of game cameras and check on them every so often to see if they turn up anything ?

It's not getting worse, it's just people are talking about it now.

Nothing irks me like seeing a tube left on the curb, or where ever an it's all smashed up.

Illegal dumping will see us eventually regulated an needing permits to do anything, all cause some jerkwad is to lazy to dispose of things properly.

Maybe there is a story behind it...till then I'll stick with the facts known. Someone left behind a bunch of tubes, an till more info comes out, I reserve the right to assume they were just to lazy to put up the sheetrock, an they were illegally dumping tubes there or doing it under the radar. Legit companies tend to organize things better. It also looks like they trashed the place, an didn't care about the building at all. Shots in the video that show a unsafe work environment. An if it was a failed business I still have no sympathy judging by the way they kept things. Not a big surprise they failed if that's how they organize things.

Chaos may work in a home shop or one man shop, but general fails when it comes to a big building/warehouse.

My thoughts, keep'm or get a refund for the 2 pennies.

Sirscrapalot - People amaze and amuse me.

Great thing about the internet...so many different trains of thought. Ha ha!

I'm with Scrappah, this has all the sign's of a failed business attempt, at some type of CRT recycling and obviously going about it all wrong! Those forklift tracks do appear to be "fresh", hard to say as this property has years of neglect and not from just the most recent tenants. I do commercial property management, managing shopping centers, warehouses, light industrial and business parks. A property that is well managed, is not "normally" allowed to fall into this kind accumulated neglect. There's a saying in real estate, "Location, location, location." this property, more than likely has run it's course and is in a location that is no longer a thriving vibrant community. Originally this was probably a "Spec" built building for a particular successfully ran company, that for many a reasons, no longer occupies this space. Then property owners begin the process of leasing to other suitable alternative "lease holders" to occupy a building that may or may not work out. A lot of times a building like this one, fairly large and with a layout that just does not work for anyone else, simply because it was built for one need only. I would guess there has been several "lease holders" since the original business occupied this building. More than one person knows those responsible for this property damage, caused by a large amount of discarded environmental waste (CRT's). A commercial property is leased, almost always with a large security deposit that helps to cover these problems that are certain to occur. There will also be a commercial insurance policy that will cover some of these damages if property owners are still solvent. A worse case scenario, may have occurred with this property, in that property owners are no longer financially able to posses the property. In that case, the local governments (city, county and state) will need to take over as the "responsible party", with seizure and sale of property hopefully covering most of cleanup cost.

The market for CRT recycling has become very limited with less responsible recycling companies interested in properly handling CRT's. There is going to be more problems than solutions before the "tube" fades away into just a "memory". There is no "one right solution" and everyone is going to be challenged to do the "right thing"! I have had to deal with dumped TV's and monitors, these were all illegally dumped on a commercial property, mostly in or nears a trash dumpster. We process them by opening the case, retaining the screws, removing all wire, copper and PCB.s. We then put the case back together with the screws, so as to "properly protect" the CRT as it is transported to a state certified approved recycler. The cost of properly recycling is not covered by money received, by our efforts, but it does help "offset" our cost to be responsible property managers. I wish illegal dumping did not happen, but it does and CRT's are not the only problem or greatest problem. The good news is we see less and less CRT's now then we did five years ago. Now the bad news, we are seeing more flat screen displays, good thing they weigh less!

So do you think people are paying to put these here? Or it is just a dumping ground for free? I feel its a pay to dump and if so people will be caught if there is any paper trail at all. When and if the government collects CRT's the warehouse will be bigger, or they will store underground in Nevada but they will do nothing to get rid of them. Could drop them on ISIS I guess...

Originally Posted by hobo finds

So do you think people are paying to put these here? Or it is just a dumping ground for free? I feel its a pay to dump and if so people will be caught if there is any paper trail at all. When and if the government collects CRT's the warehouse will be bigger, or they will store underground in Nevada but they will do nothing to get rid of them. Could drop them on ISIS I guess...

Ummmm ..... find out who owns the building. (That's all i'm gonna say at this point.)

I drove past Centerville twice last week on my way to Waverly and Only Tennessee to work some service tickets.

I'm sure I'll be going back in that direction in the next few weeks.

Not sure how I would go about finding the building and what I would do if I did.

It's not much to go on but i chased the corporate ownership of Tencon through to the ImagePoint corporation. This gives a rundown on the company history.

ImagePoint - Signs-Facility Branding - Our History

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Plasti-Line purchased Tencon in Centerville, TN. This added the McDonald's program, which is still one of our largest accounts today. While Tencon was consolidated in Knoxville in 1988, many of the Tencon employees still work for Plasti-Line today.

If you stopped in at the town grocery store and asked one of the old timers where the Tencon plant used to be they might be able to point you in the right direction.

CRT CSI SMF we will find them!