Where Do Old CRTs Go to Die?

zerodamage · Feb 15, 2004, 02:51 AM

"Outdated 15-inch CRT monitors and PCs too poky to run Photoshop are piled in a back room that WorldWise, a Web design shop in Grand Blanc, Michigan, also uses as a kitchen. The company stacks so much equipment there, according to WorldWise co-founder Jerry Kocis, that "I think [employees] started going out so they wouldn't have to eat on top of old keyboards and other stuff."

Source: Neowin

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 15, 2004, 11:44 AM

they are smahed into a square then conctre its pourd around them. it cost $50 to properly dispose of a monitoir

Matth · Feb 15, 2004, 05:26 PM

Recycle? - charities, or secondhand buyers can make use of kit that others consider obsolete.

Now a complete system, obviously requires that the hard disk be data-wiped, but there are plenty of free programs that can do that - and it's often said that the way HD capacity is pushed, the need for massive multipattern overwrite is less than it used to be.

Even a simple zero-fill ensures that the data is not coming back without a forensic lab.

swimtech · Feb 15, 2004, 05:38 PM

Mostly, they wind up in your friendly neighborhood landfill. Years ago, when I had my TV shop, I called the local landfill and they said to bring what I had to dispose of. I loaded about 200 old TVs (necks carefully broken to "air" the tube so it wouldn't implode) and took them in an 18' truck stacked top to bottom, front to back, to the landfill.

We backed up to this huge conveyor belt device which fed a massive shredder/crusher machine, and threw them off the back end of the truck onto the conveyor belt (great therapy!). The detrius was compressed into a block and put into the landfill. I don't know if they had a special area in the landfill for this type garbage or not...

Feb 15, 2004, 02:51 AM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Where Do Old CRTs Go to Die? "Outdated 15-inch CRT monitors and PCs too poky to run Photoshop are piled in a back room that WorldWise, a Web design shop in Grand Blanc, Michigan, also uses as a kitchen. The company stacks so much equipment there, according to WorldWise co-founder Jerry Kocis, that "I think [employees] started going out so they wouldn't have to eat on top of old keyboards and other stuff." Source: Neowin

Feb 15, 2004, 11:44 AM	#2
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	they are smahed into a square then conctre its pourd around them. it cost $50 to properly dispose of a monitoir __________________

Feb 15, 2004, 05:38 PM	#4
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Mostly, they wind up in your friendly neighborhood landfill. Years ago, when I had my TV shop, I called the local landfill and they said to bring what I had to dispose of. I loaded about 200 old TVs (necks carefully broken to "air" the tube so it wouldn't implode) and took them in an 18' truck stacked top to bottom, front to back, to the landfill. We backed up to this huge conveyor belt device which fed a massive shredder/crusher machine, and threw them off the back end of the truck onto the conveyor belt (great therapy!). The detrius was compressed into a block and put into the landfill. I don't know if they had a special area in the landfill for this type garbage or not... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Feb 15, 2004, 05:26 PM	#3
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	Recycle? - charities, or secondhand buyers can make use of kit that others consider obsolete. Now a complete system, obviously requires that the hard disk be data-wiped, but there are plenty of free programs that can do that - and it's often said that the way HD capacity is pushed, the need for massive multipattern overwrite is less than it used to be. Even a simple zero-fill ensures that the data is not coming back without a forensic lab.