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James Chon, Swinburne University, talks MEGA-DVDs!
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As you drive around the suburbs and towns of Australia, hard rubbish collections draw their fair share of old television sets and computer screens. You know the ones, the old CRT or Cathode Ray Tube displays. Have you noticed in recent times, as we move towards digital television and lcd computer screens, the quantity of these devices on or nature strips is on the increase? A main component in these old CRT’s is lead – a fairly toxic substance which you don’t really want to mess with. For years the nation's old television sets and computers have been tossed out and ended up in landfill - 1.5 million a year to be precise. But soon a new national scheme will give Australian's the option of recycling their old electronic equipment. In Tasmania last week, the Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett met with state environment ministers to discuss the worsening problem of e-waste. As with all meetings of this nature, the ministers agreed that there was a problem and a degree of urgency to set up what they hope will be a national program to recycle electronic waste where possible and adequately dispose of materials which can’t be recycled.
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