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Rich,
 
If you live in Lansing/East Lansing Granger offers Hazmat drop off at both their Wood Street location (just north of the Lake Lansing Wallmart) and their S. Cedar locaiton (just off South Street, north of the railroad tracks).  These sites do proper disposal and recycling of electronics including CRT monitors, UPS Batteries and CFL bulbs. 
 
In the future, I would imagine that MSU would be more willing to work with the community when the new Recycling and Surplus building goes online in late 2009 (to be located off the new Farm Lane). 
 
-Nick Kwiatkowski
 MSU Telecom Systems
 

From: MSU Network Administrators Group on behalf of Richard Wiggins
Sent: Sun 12/7/2008 7:05 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] CRT recycling in MSU, greater Lansing communities?

Jack,
 
Please re-read my posting.  I'm not just asking how to dispose of MSU-owned CRT devices; I'm asking what, if any outreach efforts, in the form of organized collection drives, MSU sponsors or joins -- events aimed at the MSU and area communities, not limited to MSU-owned equipment.  In my online searches, I found no such events.
 
MSU does organize annual collections of telephone books.  During the next year or two, disposal of CRTs, no matter who owns them, will have a huge environmental impact, locally and globally.  CRTs are tricky to properly take apart, and have lead and other nasty materials inside. 
 
Thanks,
 
/rich

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Kramer, Jack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I think the usual procedure has been to surplus the undesired CRTs - if they can sell the units they will, and they recycle non-saleable surplus.

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Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
517-884-1231
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Wiggins
Sent: Sun 12/07/2008 11:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] CRT recycling in MSU, greater Lansing communities?
Does MSU sponsor any organized collection drives for recycling CRT televisions and computer monitors?  A bunch of searching finds nothing at MSU, but there are some upcoming events in the area.

Disposal of CRT monitors and televisions will peak massively in 2009 because: people are buying laptops instead of desktops, people are buying LCD displays to replace desktop CRT monitors, and people are replacing CRT televisions with flat panels -- all in record numbers. In particular,  February 17, 2009 will cause a huge spike of CRTs in area landfills.  

I personally need to dispose of 4 CRT monitors and televisions, so I searched for community efforts. Unfortunately searches for such programs don't turn up anything at MSU. You find lots of "eat your spinach" announcements telling people what a great idea it is to recycle CRTs, but I'm not finding any organized efforts.

-- From www.msu.edu, searches such as "dispose CRT" or "recycle TV" find documents, some quite old, on why it's a good idea, but zero info on actual campus or community events or programs.  

-- From recycle.msu.edu. these searches find nothing.  Featured info links are telephone directories, flourescent tubes, and transparencies.

-- At bespartangreen.msu.edu you can't search for this -- there is no search box.  "News and Events" describes recycling efforts in Snyder-Phillips and in library restrooms -- for Fall, 2007 -- nothing about CRTs or televisions.

Some poking around did reveal two events coming up sponsored by the City of Lansing in January and February.

/rich

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