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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>News for Release: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 <br>
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<U1:COUNTRY-REGION><U1:PLACE>U.S.</U1:PLACE></U1:COUNTRY-REGION> Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) <br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>EPA Improves Standards for Recycling of
Cathode Ray Tubes <br>
<br>
</span></b>Contact: Roxanne Smith, (202) 564-4355 / smith.roxanne@epa.gov <br>
<br>
(<U1:PLACE><U1:CITY>Washington</U1:CITY>, <U1:STATE>D.C.</U1:STATE></U1:PLACE>
- <U1:DATE year="2006" day="19" month="7">July 19, 2006</U1:DATE>) EPA is
streamlining the federal hazardous waste management requirements for cathode
ray tubes and CRT glass destined for recycling. These safe, yet simplified
standards aim to increase the collection and recycling of CRTs. Safely
recycling CRTs saves energy and conserves resources, allows the recovered lead
to be reused in other ways, and reduces the amount of lead in landfills. <br>
<br>
"A discarded CRT represents an opportunity lost," said EPA Assistant
Administrator Susan Bodine. "This rule will help encourage the reuse and
recycling of CRTs, which puts these resources back to productive use, rather
than into the Nation's landfills." <br>
<br>
Under these new regulations, used, unbroken CRTs are not regulated as hazardous
waste unless they are stored for more than a year. EPA is setting simpler, more
manageable standards for unbroken CRTs because the risk of lead releases from
them is very low. Limited storage requirements apply only to CRT recyclers and
collectors. <br>
<br>
CRTs are the video display components of televisions and computer monitors. The
glass in CRTs typically contains enough lead to require managing it as
hazardous waste under certain circumstances. Under the previous regulations,
businesses and other organizations that recycle or dispose of CRTs were sometimes
unclear about the proper way to recycle or dispose of this equipment. That
uncertainty sometimes prevented CRTs from being recycled and reused. EPA is
changing CRT waste management requirements to eliminate this confusion so that
more CRTs will be reused and recycled. About 57 million computers and
televisions are sold in the <U1:COUNTRY-REGION><U1:PLACE><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</U1:PLACE></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></st1:place></st1:country-region>
annually, although many new models may not contain CRTs. <br>
<br>
Used, broken CRTs are not regulated as hazardous waste as long as certain
good-housekeeping practices are followed. To remain unregulated, CRTs
undergoing glass processing must follow the same simplified requirements,
except that they must be processed so that lead from the glass is not
volatilized. CRT glass that has been processed and sent to a CRT glass manufacturer
or a lead smelter also is unregulated, as long as it is kept in storage less
than a year. <br>
<br>
Exporters shipping broken or unbroken CRTs to another country for recycling
must notify EPA and receive written consent from the receiving country through
EPA before shipments can be made. This requirement is similar to those
applicable to exporters of hazardous waste, which are found at 40 CFR Part 262.
In addition, exporters shipping used, unbroken CRTs for reuse as computers to
another country must submit a one-time notification to EPA. <br>
<br>
More information about the Hazardous Waste CRT Rule: <br>
<a href="http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/electron/crt.htm"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/electron/crt.htm</span></font></a> <br>
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