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    Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
    When CRT's were in use they were recycled and made into more, now that CRT's are no longer made it's harder to recycle them!
    I'm no expert on this stuff but it makes sense, I mean, what else can you do with the leaded glass of that volume?

    Are we going to have to bury it in the mountains along side nuclear waste now lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
    I'm no expert on this stuff but it makes sense, I mean, what else can you do with the leaded glass of that volume?

    Are we going to have to bury it in the mountains along side nuclear waste now lol.
    I was kinda thinking along similar lines the morning. It's leaded glass and the reason it was leaded was to dampen down the emissions from the gun in the back of the tube. They used to say that you shouldn't sit too close to a tv back in the day.

    There are a lot of situations that use lead or leaded glass to block harmful radiation. I built an x-ray room for a hospital once that was completely lead lined. (The sheetrock and doors were heavy as hell.) Leaded glass could be used instead of sheets of lead metal.

    If you had tons & tons of the stuff the best (and simplest) use would probably be in making concrete for underground fallout shelters and nuclear waste storage facilities. Instead of using sand & stone in the concrete mix you could use different size pieces of leaded glass.

    Just a random thought over the morning's first cup of coffee.

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