I have a lot of LCD panels from laptops half with cracked screens. What are you guys and girls doing with them? Thanks for the help
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I have a lot of LCD panels from laptops half with cracked screens. What are you guys and girls doing with them? Thanks for the help
This is what I do... Some of the parts in the lcd are recycleable.. There are several componets in a lcd, You've your greenboard ... you've metal, you've ccfl or led Be careful with the ccfl tubes.. they are sharp when broken and should not be broken.. take them off carefully,, and put them in a box for proper recycling. then you've under the lcd you've the thicker plastic. which can also be toss into the plastic bin for recycle, Gosh.. I just went blank.. missing the componet that the lcd is made out of the glass, then inbetween the glass. then the plastic sheets, then the thicker plastic, and then thin sheet of plastic.. and then the frame work.. basically its can all be recycle.
Some are holding onto the actual lcd screen. It has rare earth metals that hopefully will be refined in the future otherwise put them with your plastics.
If I break the screen apart the part that has the liquid crystal insiide it, is that what you are refering to what there saving? Why is it that some people buy LCD monitors in any condition as long as the screen isn't cracked. Maybe for the rare metals you mentioned. Seems like they would buy them cracked maybe they don't want a broken ccfl.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER
Pc scrapper thanks for the info so you are throwing the glass part of the screen that has the liquid crystal inside into your glass pile?
No I'm keeping that part in a seperate bin for later use down the road...
Lcd screens if not saving should go with glass recycles. Places buy them to resell if the screen is not cracked. If you want to save them they can be cracked or not but its easier and less mess to store if they are whole.
Are LCD Monitor screens in the same category as laptop and TV screens ? What about microwave/appliance/peripheral LCDs, are they in it too? ( i mean, do people buy those to re-use them also)
Ummm yes people do buy good screens just like any other part...if it tests good it is resellable...just has to be a demand for that models lcd...and generally someone wants/needs it sonewhere...the rest I take to best buy or goodwill to recycle throught their programs...stripped and everything.
My main business is it support so we do test all parts esp laptop screens and resell them. Half of the bad screens are cracked and I know a couple buyers that won't take broken LCD screens. Im just trying to figure out what's the diff cracked or not its not like there ozzing toxic chemicals ads long as the ccfl isn't cracked which I have never seen. I guess I might have to start storing them until someone wants to buy themQuote:
Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff
I test to see if any of the material is non ferrous and if not, I toss it in shred
Not a good place for these...lcds contain mercury.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRecycler
There are tiny fluorescent bulbs in them.
Brasscatcher is right,Quote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER
There are 4 rare earth minerals contained in LCD screens. I know people who are keeping just the screens themselves, and selling the casing and other items as scrap.
China is experiencing a serious shortage of rare earth minerals.
The Rare Earths Shortage Isn't Over Yet - Forbes
WPR Article | China's Rare Earth Metals Clampdown Drives New Trade, Mining Ties
When China started selling the rare earth minerals they mined, to the rest of the world, they did so at a price that US rare earth mining operations couldn't compete with. Now, here in the US, there are several operations just starting up, but now the EPA requirements and laws have changed, so it's going to be at least 10 years before US operations are able to ramp up and start to supply the demand again. Because rare earth minerals are so crucial to modern electronics, this affects the prices and production of the electronics that use rare earth minerals in their manufacture.
Somewhere this gap has to be filled. As the demand become more, and the supply becomes less, we are going to see a significant and important part of sourcing for rare earth minerals come from recycled material. We are not there yet, but I believe from what I have read that we will be there within the next 1-2 years.
Currently China supplies just over 90% of the rare earth minerals used in the manufacture of electronics, in the entire world. The demand increases every year, and the production of rare earth minerals is declining. It's a no brainer.
So if you have a good place to store just the screens, my suggestion would be to do so. Because they are not being refined on a large scale yet, someone somewhere is hoarding them, stockpiling for when the prices go up.
I have even been exploring the possibility of refining rare earth minerals myself, I'm not even close to being able to do so yet, and probably will not in the next few years, but it is in my future plans to seriously explore the possibilities in doing so.
Scott