Scrapyards

The afterlife. Dumped sets at the kerb, stockpiles of cathode ray glass, recycling floors, electronic waste grounds, museum stores and conservation benches, collector shelves of professional monitors, and smashed tubes. A twelve inch tube holds about half a kilogram of lead and a thirty-two inch one up to three, with the funnel glass a fifth to a quarter lead oxide, which is why a dead set is a disposal problem rather than rubbish.

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  1. - Тешевицы, цветной телевизор Радуга-716. A colour television receiver in Alexander Popov's private collection at Teshevitsy in Pskov Oblast, Russia. Private collectors are now the main reason Soviet colour sets survive at all, since almost none were kept by museums.
  2. - Murcia, Región (1985) 14. Waste dumped in open countryside in the Region of Murcia, Spain. A television abandoned in a field leaks its leaded funnel glass into the ground once the case breaks down.
  3. - Low9t9DecTVpile. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Scene in flood in devastated Lower 9th Ward. Pile of defunct televisions set on curb. Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans, 9 December 2005.
  4. - Up9th20Dec05BigTV. A large ruined television in a flood damaged residential neighbourhood of the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans in December 2005, after Hurricane Katrina. A flood destroys a whole district's electronics at once, which is why entire streets put out identical waste.
  5. - UptownTVpile. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Appliances and possessions set on curb as trash in flood damaged Bologny Uptown neighborhood include fish tank, vacuum cleaner, several televisions. Note lines from various levels of long standing floodwaters still visible on the door. Photo by Infrogmation.
  6. - Up9t13JanMonitors. Discarded monitors in the formerly flooded Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. A flood turns an entire neighbourhood's electronics into waste at once, which is why kerbside piles like this appeared across the city.
  7. - Up9t13JanTVvacume. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Scene in formerly flooded Upper 9th Ward. Trashed possessions piled outside flood damaged home Photo by Infrogmation.
  8. - Carew Alley - Dumped mattress & TV. Saturday 29 December 2007. The alleyway between Carew Road and Dowsett Road. Brian Haley, formerly Labour "cabinet" councillor for the Environment, used to ask people to look on the positive side.
  9. - Dumped Television. A television dumped by the roadside on the High Road, photographed on a September morning in 2007. Kerbside abandonment is what happened to most working tube sets when flat panels became affordable enough to replace them.
  10. - Saturday Stroll -17. A dumped television on Hanbury Road in Haringey, London, in December 2007. The photographer notes that the council collects old sets from homes free of charge, which makes the fly tipping a choice rather than a necessity.
  11. - Tamar Way. Dumped TV and fridge. Haringey Council offers a free collection for both.
  12. - 24 February 2008 - Sunday Stroll -2. Two rubbish bags beside two dumped and broken televisions in February 2008. The photographer notes that the council would have collected them from residents' homes at no charge, which makes the fly tipping a choice rather than a necessity.
  13. - Broken TV - Glendish Road. Sunday Stroll 30 March 2008 ∙ #12 TV broken open and the copper collar removed from the CRT tube. Glendish Road Tottenham. Haringey residents can arrange for a free collection of televisions and other electrical equipment.
  14. - Sherringham Avenue - Dumped fridge & TV. 25 January 2008. TV screen perched on top of a fridge - dumped on the pavement. Both are items which Haringey Council will collect from people's homes for free.
  15. - Station Crescent, Re-dump. The dumping shown in the photo on 6 January 2008 was removed by the Council's contractors - probably on 10 January. Which created space for someone to dump a fridge-freezer and a TV. The orange notice is a Council Aware sticker which threatens a maximum fine of £2,500.
  16. - TV a l'échangeur de la porte Maillot. A television dumped by the slip road onto the inner ring road at the Porte Maillot in Paris. Sets abandoned at roadsides are the most visible stage of disposal and the least controlled.
  17. - Alleyway redumped - Update 16 February 2009. Original Message ----- From : Alan Stanton To : Haringey Urban Environment Department Sent : Monday, 2 February 2009 Subject : Dumping in pathway/Alleyway between Seven Sisters Road & Pulford Road N15 Please see the photo I took on 31 January and posted on Flickr. It shows the pathway linking Pulford Road and Seven Sisters Road N15 at the point where it leaves the small garden and goes through a short alley between the shops at 523 Seven Sisters Road. I was walking past and spotted a few bags left in the alley itself.
  18. - TV Shady Nook. 9 May 2009. This little corner in Rawlinson Terrace is a popular dumping spot. As usual, I wonder why someone bothered lugging an old television here, at the time, Haringey residents could have a TV (and other electrical equipment) collected by the Council for nothing.
  19. - TV - Sherringham Avenue. Sherringham Avenue, Tottenham 4:34 pm on 20 January 2009. Television and black box dumped on the pavement.
  20. - Bonita composición artística en el vertedero ilegal de Olalla. An illegal dump at Olalla, Spain, with a discarded television among the waste. A set dumped in the open eventually breaks and releases the lead its funnel glass carries.
  21. - The unacceptable face of the British countryside. A fly tipped television in the British countryside. The photographer connects it to the arrival of large flat panels: when households replaced working tube sets, the old ones had to go somewhere.
  22. - US Navy -N-7498L-911 Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Bri Gamiao, assigned to the guided-missile. WAIPAHU, Hawaii (April 17, 2010) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Bri Gamiao, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane (DDG 77), dredges up a television from the Kapakahi Stream. Navy, along with the city of Honolulu and the Pearl City Lions International Hawaii, participated in the 4th annual Pearl Harbor Basin (bike path) cleanup. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark Logico/Released).
  23. - Behind the scenes at the National Media Museum. Behind the scenes at the museum, in the areas where the objects not on display are kept. Museum stores are where most surviving television hardware actually lives.
  24. - CRT Recycling Process for TVs and Computer Monitors. A CRT recycling process for televisions and computer monitors, from a global recycler. CRTs are among the hardest types of electronic waste to recycle.
  25. - RIT on TV: Electronics Recycling. A university report on electronics recycling, filmed at the facility. A 12 inch CRT contains 0.5 kg of lead and a 32 inch up to 3 kg, with funnel glass at 21 to 25 percent lead oxide and the neck at 30 to 40 percent.
  26. - Abandoned Art School 10. An abandoned art school with a television left behind among the debris. Sets are among the last things removed from an abandoned building because they are heavy and worth nothing.
  27. - PRAZEN TELEVIZIJSKI EKRAN. A television screen after processing, the emptied cathode glass which then goes on for further treatment. Separating the leaded funnel from the front panel glass is the central problem of CRT recycling, because the two glasses have different lead content and cannot be melted together.
  28. - Smashed TV on Angela Davis Parkway Bike Path, New Orleans August 2011 - 1. A smashed television on the Angela Davis Parkway bike path in New Orleans, August 2011. Breaking the tube is the worst way for a set to end, because it releases the leaded glass dust the funnel is made to contain.
  29. - Beneath the majestic sweep of progress. An old television tossed by the roadside at Whalley in Surrey, British Columbia. The tube set became disposable at exactly the moment flat panels became affordable.
  30. - Entrümpelung. Musste der Bastler mal den Keller aufräumen? Ansammlung von Fernsehgeräten am Straßenrand in Golm (Potsdam), bereit zur Abholung durch die Stadtentsorgung.
  31. - Кладбище Советских Кинескопов - panoramio. A graveyard of Soviet kinescopes, picture tubes dumped and stacked in the open. A 12 inch tube holds about half a kilogram of lead and a 32 inch one up to three, with the funnel glass 21 to 25 per cent lead oxide, which is why a heap like this is a contamination problem rather than ordinary rubbish.
  32. - The BBC Collection at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. The BBC collection at the National Science and Media Museum, filmed in the store rather than the gallery. CRT glass was recycled glass to glass into new tubes, so when manufacture ended the only large-scale buyer vanished and the material acquired negative scrap value.
  33. - The Digital Dump, Illegal Electronics Waste Trade Documentary in Nigeria. The Digital Dump, a documentary on the illegal electronics waste trade in Nigeria. The United States has not ratified the Basel Convention or its Ban Amendment; the Basel Action Network estimates about 80 percent of American e-waste sent for recycling is exported, and the EPA and industry groups dispute that figure.
  34. - Electronic Waste Demanufacturing in the Quad Cities. Electronic waste demanufacturing, the industry term for taking apart rather than shredding. The US EPA classifies discarded CRT monitors as hazardous household waste while treating CRTs destined for recycling as commodities under certain conditions.
  35. - Greene Lyon CRT Recycling Process Video. A dedicated CRT recycling process filmed at the plant. CRT glass was recycled glass to glass, back into new tubes, so when CRT manufacture ended the only large-scale buyer disappeared and the material went from a commodity to a liability with negative scrap value.
  36. - Computer recycling West Africa style - Click - BBC News. Computer recycling West Africa style, from BBC Click. Agbogbloshie in Ghana takes about 215,000 tons of secondhand consumer electronics annually, primarily from Western Europe, in an area of roughly 40,000 residents.
  37. - The E-waste recycling plant. An electronic waste recycling plant filmed by its equipment manufacturer in China. Guiyu has been an e-waste processing community since the mid-1990s, with over 75 percent of local households plus around 100,000 migrant workers involved.
  38. - TechnoCycle Electronic (e-waste) Recycling Process. An electronic waste recycling process shown stage by stage at a named recycler. Every working CRT in existence today is a survivor of a category that stopped being made around 2015.
  39. - Recycling Lives CRT TV Recycling Department Overview. An overview of a CRT television recycling department. Large stockpiles of CRT glass accumulated in storage facilities across the United States, including abandoned warehouses left by failed recyclers.
  40. - Trashed Abandoned Television Set Curb. An abandoned television set in the Milwaukee Avenue Historic District of the Seward neighbourhood in Minneapolis. A set left on a pavement is the most visible stage of disposal and the least controlled.
  41. - Nothing on TV tonight. Wide screen, widespread rubbish dumping. 7 July 2016. Holcombe Road, Tottenham.
  42. - Nerding Out at the National Media Museum in Bradford. A walk through the National Media Museum in Bradford looking at the technology collection. Museum stores, not private collections, are where most of the surviving early television hardware actually lives.
  43. - How light pens and light guns work NES Zapper. The 8-Bit Guy on how light pens and light guns work, including the NES Zapper. Light guns only work on CRTs because they depend on the scanning beam timing; on an LCD they simply do not function. This is a physical incompatibility rather than nostalgia and it is the strongest single driver of the collector revival.
  44. - A Live tour of our recycling plant.. A live tour of a recycling plant handling electronics. A 12 inch CRT contains 0.5 kg of lead and a 32 inch up to 3 kg, with funnel glass at 21 to 25 percent lead oxide and the neck at 30 to 40 percent.
  45. - CRT TV & Monitor Recycling Line. A CRT television and monitor recycling line running. A 12 inch CRT contains 0.5 kg of lead and a 32 inch up to 3 kg; the funnel glass is 21 to 25 percent lead oxide and the neck 30 to 40 percent, which is why these sets are hazardous waste rather than scrap.
  46. - Discover Documentary #9 |Museum Conservation. A museum conservation documentary from Museums Victoria, on the practical work of keeping objects stable. CRT glass was recycled glass to glass into new tubes, so when manufacture ended the only large-scale buyer vanished and the material acquired negative scrap value.
  47. - National Science and Media Museum: Meet the Volunteers. The volunteers who work on the collection at the National Science and Media Museum. The US EPA classifies discarded CRT monitors as hazardous household waste while treating CRTs destined for recycling as commodities under certain conditions.
  48. - E-Waste Warehouse. A warehouse of electronic waste stacked for processing. Warehousing is often where CRT glass stops, because the recovered leaded glass has almost no buyer once tube manufacturing ends.
  49. - Pripjat 2019 44. School number 3 in Pripyat, photographed in June 2019, with a television left where it stood. The town was evacuated in 1978 hours after the Chernobyl accident and its contents were never removed, so the sets remain as abandoned Soviet hardware.
  50. - Demonstration of continuous pilot scale smelting of CRTs to recover Pb metal. A pilot-scale continuous smelting demonstration recovering lead metal from CRTs. Smelting is one of the few routes that turns leaded glass back into something saleable.
  51. - Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!. LGR exploring a large retro computer warehouse. Every working CRT in existence is now a survivor of a category that stopped being made around 2015, and warehouses like this are where they come from.
  52. - Our Process - SEZ Recycling.. The process at a specialist electronics recycler, filmed end to end. Every working CRT in existence today is a survivor of a category that stopped being made around 2015.
  53. - A Tour of the Nitrate Vaults. A tour of the nitrate film vaults at the George Eastman Museum. Included because it is the clearest illustration of what it costs to keep unstable twentieth-century media alive.
  54. - Budapest, Galántai utca 6, 23. A discarded television at Galántai Street 6 in Budapest. Kerbside dumping is how most tube sets left the housing stock once flat panels became cheap.
  55. - Zenith Prison TV. A Zenith prison television, a set built in a transparent case so nothing could be hidden inside it. An institutional object that survives precisely because it was never a domestic one.
  56. - Scrapping out a vintage Retro AWA TV - What's inside and can we get much scrap or parts value?. Scrapping a vintage AWA television and assessing what it is actually worth in parts. The honest answer is very little, which is why so many were dumped.
  57. - Weggeworfener Röhrenfernseher DSC7755. A discarded tube television on Bahnhofstraße, its connector panel facing out. The sockets on the back date it: a set with several inputs was built late in the tube era, not early.
  58. - Meet Kenya's electronic waste collectors - BBC What's New. Kenya electronic waste collectors, from the BBC. The informal collection trade is the first stage of the chain almost everywhere outside the regulated West.
  59. - Gálfi Béla Kórház, budakalászi részleg, 6. A television left in the Budakalász wing of the Gálfi Béla Hospital in Hungary. Institutional sets outlast domestic ones and are then abandoned in place when a building closes.
  60. - Sony KV-PG21N70 abandoned. A discarded Sony Trinitron colour television left on the pavement of Fuyi Street in Qidu District, Keelung, Taiwan. Trinitron sets were premium hardware when new and were still being thrown out in quantity two decades later.
  61. - How a robot recycles our electronic waste – BBC News. A robot recycling electronic waste, from BBC News. Automating disassembly is the current attempt to make the economics work.
  62. - Switched On at the National Science and Media Museum. Switched On, a display at the National Science and Media Museum. Captioned as a museum display rather than as period equipment.
  63. - MAKING MONEY: Recycling – Turning waste into valuable raw materials | WELT Documentary. A German documentary on turning waste into raw materials, covering the economics that decide whether anything gets recycled at all. Museum stores, not private collections, are where most of the surviving early television hardware actually lives.
  64. - The National Science & Media Museum (Bradford). A long walkthrough of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and its television holdings. CRT glass was recycled glass to glass into new tubes, so when manufacture ended the only large-scale buyer vanished and the material acquired negative scrap value.
  65. - Budapest, Hungária körút, szovjet panelházak, 63. A dumped television beside Soviet era panel housing blocks on Hungária Boulevard in Budapest. The blocks and the set date from the same period of mass production.
  66. - 40 Years of the National Science and Media Museum. Forty years of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, which holds the major British early television collection including Baird material. A 12 inch CRT contains 0.5 kg of lead and a 32 inch up to 3 kg, with funnel glass at 21 to 25 percent lead oxide and the neck at 30 to 40 percent.
  67. - An abandoned CRT TV from Sanyo (2024-01-03). An abandoned Sanyo cathode ray tube television, left outdoors. Sets like this were still being sold new within living memory of the photograph, since CRT sales peaked as recently as 2005.
  68. - Where do your old mobile phones and TVs go to die? | BBC News. Where old phones and televisions go to die, from BBC News. The US EPA classifies discarded CRT monitors as hazardous household waste while treating CRTs destined for recycling as commodities under certain conditions.
  69. - Abaliget, elhagyatott hotel, 13. A television left in an abandoned hotel at Abaliget, Hungary. Hotels fit sets in every room, so a closed hotel leaves behind more abandoned televisions than any house.
  70. - Abandoned TV 01. A television abandoned in woodland. The case will break down long before the leaded funnel glass does, and it is the glass that makes a dumped set a contamination problem.
  71. - ARCADE WAREHOUSE RAID! 🏴‍☠️ 15+ rare & weird 80s games saved from an Abandoned building in WV 🏚️. Rescuing arcade machines from an abandoned building. Arcade cabinets are among the largest surviving population of working picture tubes.
  72. - How organised crime is fuelling a rise in e-waste trafficking - BBC World Service. How organised crime is fuelling a rise in electronic waste trafficking, from the BBC World Service. The waste stream has become a criminal market because disposal costs money and export does not.
  73. - The Digital Afterlife: Unraveling the E-Waste Crisis | E-Life | Full Documentary. A full documentary on the electronic waste crisis and what happens to discarded devices. Every working CRT in existence today is a survivor of a category that stopped being made around 2015.
  74. - Sammelcontainer für Elektro-Kleingeräte, davor ein Röhrenfernseher. A collection container for small electrical appliances at Swisttal-Odendorf in Germany, with a tube television standing in front of it because the set is too big for the deposit slot. The mismatch is the whole disposal problem in one image.
  75. - Super Giant Gold Recycling Process – Pure Gold from E-Waste | The Most Valuable Recycling Industry. Gold recovery from electronic waste at scale. The precious metal recovery is what funds the operation; the leaded glass is a cost.
  76. - How Millions of Feet of Copper Wire Are Recycled In Factory – Massive Copper Recycling Line. A large copper wire recycling line, part of the same recovery industry. Museum stores, not private collections, are where most of the surviving early television hardware actually lives.
  77. - How Millions of Pounds of E-Waste Are Recycled Into Industrial Grade Steel Inside Mega Factory. How millions of pounds of electronic waste become industrial steel inside a large facility. The metals are recoverable; the leaded glass is the part that is not.
  78. - Step Inside Britain's Most Iconic Media Museum. A tour inside the National Science and Media Museum. The early material is held by institutions precisely because it did not survive in private hands.
  79. - How Old Mobile Phones Are Recycled Into Gold | Full Recycling Process. How old mobile phones are recycled into gold, showing the full chemical recovery process. A 12 inch CRT contains 0.5 kg of lead and a 32 inch up to 3 kg, with funnel glass at 21 to 25 percent lead oxide and the neck at 30 to 40 percent.
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