New EA Ruling Leads to Closure of CRT Recycling Firm
18 January 2012 - CRT Recycling Ltd of Shropshire claim that a recent Environmental Agency ruling regarding the storage of broken CRT glass has forced them to close their doors.
The new guidelines, which came into effect on Christmas Day, say that “Any broken CRTs must be handled in an enclosed environment with appropriate systems to ensure that any fluorescent coatings/leaded glass dust released are contained, collected and subsequently managed properly.”
These stipulations mean that CRT would have to pay for an indoor storage and reception building or for a large extension to be added to their cathode ray reprocessor facility in Rhydymwyn, Flintshire, both of which would entail a high expense.
Carl Kruger, CRT’s Managing Director, commented: “Despite operating the most sophisticated mass production-led CRT glass reprocessing operation in the UK, and being one of only two CRT glass processors with end of waste status granted by the EA, the new requirement relating to the storage of broken CRT glass has presented the company with an impossible situation.”
He added: “The EA requirements would now require large-scale financial expenditure and, as they well know, a contentious planning application involving a lengthy and difficult period of consultation with local residents.”