Article: Monitoring the future: CRT glass recyclers speculate on the future of glass-to-glass recycling markets.(Commodity Focus)(Cathode ray tubes)

Many Americans are streamlining, shedding their bulky CRT-containing monitors and televisions in favor of the sleeker LCD and flat screen models available now. In addition to economizing on space, these new devices offer the ultramodern look that many expect from 21st century devices--or what shows like The Jetsons taught us to expect, at any rate.

Ironically, the growing popularity of LCD (liquid crystal display) and flat screen monitors is expected to have unfavorable effects on the closed-loop recycling process in the long term, just as state laws banning CRT (cathode-ray tube) devices from landfills have started to stabilize a system to recycle CRT glass.

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