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Cutting edge work on old TVs
1:41pm Wednesday 30th April 2008
Yorwaste, the North Yorkshire recycling and waste management specialist, has doubled its capacity for handling discarded televisions and computer monitors.
The company has installed a fully-automated cutting machine to cut up cathode ray tubes (CRTs) at its Hessay depot near York. The machine, made by WKR of Germany, is the first of its kind to be used in Yorkshire and the North East. It can process some 80 CRTs per hour.
Once the tubes have been cut up, the hazardous elements are separated from the non-hazardous and sent to Germany for treatment and recycling into new CRT glass.
The non-hazardous elements are either sent to Germany for recycling or kept in the UK for use as a secondary aggregate.
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A Yorwaste operative prepares cathode ray tubes from old televisions to be cut up by the new CRT cutting machine Yorwaste has installed at Hessay
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