ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESYou may ask:
"Why?"
But the universe whispers back:
"Why not?"
clewWhy not with the CRTs is that the tubes should be more carefully disposed of and mixing them with... everything else makes that harder.
Am hopefully believing that the actual CRTs *have* been disposed of and we are seeing merely the appliance shells.
@clew is it lead? The CRTs have lead in them I think?
@clew eww
good point
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKTBH pretty much all CRTs had implosion protection by the 1970s, although correct disposal remains a problem - already a whole load have ended up in landfills across the USA since the 2000s and even here in Europe the "eco-friendly" places often quietly sent them to poorer countries...
looks like the leaded glass was recycled into more leaded glass (more CRTs) until suddenly the market collapsed
I guess we don't want leaded glass to drink out of anymore, either. Uh, radiation-sheilding windows? Is it good for anything that's worth the risk? Is the glass okay encapsulation of the lead if it gets sintered into big glassy blocks, or will the lead leach?
argh
Raven667
saxnot@saxnot @raven667 @clew @vfrmedia
it's "safe" in that it's not leaching a lot of uranium, much like leaded glass is "safe" because it's not leaching a lot of lead
of course, that means it's not really safe at all, because you don't want any uranium or lead in you, and there is no reason to use it unless you're a victorian reenactor
and the issue with the uranium is the chemical toxicity, not the radioactivity