Free 15 pallets of crt televisions and monitors and 50 projection televisions

**logansryche** · 02-17-2015, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by etack

If this was the case e-waste buyers would not buy your boards. Most of them ship the boards overseas to be processed in facilities that are geared for proper refining.

Eric

Us as Americans made this mess to begin with, and us as Americans should fix it - not export it and hope someone's dealing with it. We need to figure out the best safest way to handle this. If this means processing and refining in-house, then that's what it means. I stand by my statement of E-waste exporting should be illegal. To me the definition of E-waste is everything that's not sellable or the left over WEEE scrap. Boards, motors, relays, etc.. are sellables and to me aren't considered E-waste. Everyone has their own definition of what E-waste is apparently.

Originally Posted by bigburtchino

How many refiners are there in the USA? ANYBODY really know how many?

I can only think of maybe one, and even then their a specialty refiner who refines CRTs. I know there are members on here who refine what they bring in and they count as refiners.

**HiTechMike** · 02-17-2015, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by logansryche

Us as Americans made this mess to begin with, and us as Americans should fix it

America generates a large amount of e-waste, but so does Europe. Asia is the main producer of the electronics. The e-waste problem is not just one country's fault, it's global.