CRT Dumping Is Becoming More Common

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!