Sharp Corporation has announced that Kansai Recycling Systems, which is comprised of seven electrical companies, is to build a new factory to recycle CRT televisions. Mitubishi Materials, Sanyo Electric, Sony, Hitachi Compliance Group, Fujitsu, and Mitsubishi Electric are partners in the enterprise.
According to Sharp, the manufacturers are seeking to replace CRTs with LCD televisions by 2011. Due to the predicted increase in the disposal of CRTs, the company decided to build a second factory in
The factory will use recycling technology encompassing the whole process from taking the television apart to refining the glass into tiny pieces to be melted down. It will be designed to use natural energy, potential sources being solar, biomass, micro hydraulic power, and geothermal heat.
Recycling of televisions has achieved wide penetration in
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