There are several crt proceesing facility in the US ( 3 last I checked). They do have acceptable ways to seperate the lead from glass. The biggest issue is normally cost involved.

For many of us to utilize these facilities we would need to risk bulk storage of it as most require a minimum amount 1-3 gaylords ( 650 - 750 average weight limit). The company i looked into wants you to use thier own skids / gaylords - $50 each to have delivered. Now add in around $450 in pick up at your door. If you cant load the gaylord and require them to do it another $150 a pallet / gaylord.

So you are now looking at warehouse space used, pickup / delivery and disposal costs totaling around 650. So essentially you are spending $0.80-$1.00 a pound to ship out these tubes to be recycled.

An average 14-17" monitor tube can wieght in at 20-35 lbs each and a 19" tv tube can be 25-40 lbs each. There are no where near enough materials in the monitors and tvs to cover even 1/4 the costs. The return averages $3-5 each. (Some better, some worse.)

So those of us actually recycling electronics and now stuck with a very high out of pocket disposal fee on them unless we choose to be unresponsible and land fill the glass. This in my expeiriance still runs $0.20-$0.35 a pound. still amounting to alot more than we make on them.

This normally results in disposal fees and handling fees.

All around it comes down to finances. We can not ecconomical support our current methods of disposal and now with increasing regulation its only gonna get worse.

I pride myself on being evrionmentally friendly but costs have become so outrageous on disposal now that I personally have quit accepting them simply because I cant charge enough to cover costs and remain ecconomically feasible. I no longer can break even on them. Increasing overhead and regulation in every state is making it more difficult to do what we do and with prices decreasing unless a better system for disposal is found alot of that type of waste is gonna continue to pile up and we cant touch it.