
Computer monitors (VDUs – Visual Display Units) and televisions contain hazardous substances, mainly within the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), such as lead that need safe and responsible handling. Units are dismantled carefully in regional Sims Recycling Solutions centres, with component metal and plastic parts recovered for recycling.
Many electrical and electronic recyclers only recover the lead content within CRTs, with the glass components going to waste. Sims Recycling Solutions not only recovers glass from CRTs but has a unique solution that delivers an environmental outcome in excess of 99% recovery of the total glass weight. The vast majority of this recovery is used to create high specification glass for the manufacture of new Cathode Ray Tubes.
Find out more about how Sims recycles cathode ray tubes recovered from televisions and computer monitors via this interactive animation.
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