Safe Disposal and Recycling of LCD Monitors and Displays

We are moving towards an era where we think the need for human efforts will see its early doom and the technology or to put it more accurately the Artificial Intelligence will rule. The boom in technology is stretched across the major spheres of our lives and each year its expanded capabilities are streamlining the everyday life of the people all over the world. Adding to its elevated advantages or shall we say a blessings in disguise is the ever dynamic nature that brings with itself the rise of new technology year after year, rendering the previous versions useless and somewhere outdated.

Electronic devices and consumer appliances industry is the fit example experiencing this boom and escalation in the digital technology exposing consumers and making within their reach the n number of technology advanced electronic devices and their variants. This eagerness and the urge to dive into the pool of technology advancement are leaving in its wake tone of E-waste San Francisco which for the safety and the health of the environment needs to meet the proper and efficient ways, procedures and the process of recycling and reusing. 

Quintessential is the case with the LCD Monitors, computer displays and lamps that features the most hazardous of metals that when irresponsibly exposed into the environment can emanate fatal toxins and emissions. As per the US recycling laws and the regulations, it is a must and mandatory that mercury added electronic devices are meeting the proper recycling methods pushing residents, businesses and the industries towards the more reliable and the required ways of disposal.

What happens when LCD Monitors, Plasma TVs or Computer Displays are improperly disposed of?

LCD monitors, Plasma TVs or Computer Displays are made using the following hazardous materials that when disposed of irrationally and irresponsibly can pose serious health and human safety risks.

• Beryllium
• Cadmium
• Lead
• Mercury
• Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs)

Adding to the list of these fatal and toxic materials are cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) that are used to backlit the LCD panels which also contain a substantial amount of mercury vapors.

Toxic Implications

LCDs, Plasmas and monitors which boast substantial amount of mercury when unethically and irrationally thrown into the landfills can be leaked into the streams and get mixed with the underground water exposing animals and people to the toxic and fatal water resources.

Reducing these LCDs and plasmas to ashes is also not the advised way to dispose them of. Heavy metals that make the major proportion of these LCDs and plasmas cannot be incinerated. In return, you are endangering the environment more with the toxic emissions emanating from them because of burning.

Ethical Recycling is the only way

The most appropriate way that will ensure the safe, secure, compliant and environment-friendly way of disposing of these LCDs, Plasmas and monitors is recycling with the technology that will ensure the complete extraction of hazardous materials from them for further processing under an approved E-waste center San Francisco.

San Francisco E-waste is a leading computer E-waste center that imbibes the most ethical and environment saving ways of electronic waste and IT Asset recycling, remarketing and reusing.