Excerpt from the 'BAN Statement on Utilizing Treated Leaded CRT Glass as Alternative Daily Cover in Solid Waste Landfills'

摘要

"The issue of using municipal landfills for leaded CRT glass is not a new one. The e-Stewards Technical committee (made up of technical representatives of all e-Stewards Recyclers and added experts), considered the matter for many months. It finally agreed, as published within the current e-Stewards Standard (V2.0), and while emphasizing use of the waste management hierarchy which prefers, recycling to final disposal, to allow "as a last resort", a non-recycling option for leaded CRT glass, to be managed: "as a last resort, in a lined, leachate-controlled & monitored solid waste disposal facility if the cleaned glass has first been stabilized with a pre-treatment method in accordance with applicable laws and, as a result, passes the TCLP [editor's note: TCLP, or 'toxicity characteristic leaching procedure' refers to the chemical analysis used by environmental agencies as a method to simulate leachate levels from a landfill] and thresholds found in the definition of Hazardous Electronic Waste (unless prohibited by law or facility)."