Glass from old cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors and televisions is transformed into ceramic tile. This is not magic, but a project of recycling and recovery of waste materials promoted by the ReMedia Consortium, which aims to give new life and new shape to glass through a process focused on sustainability and respect for the environment. The recovered materials are in fact treated through procedures based on the reduction of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and the diffusion of pollutants into the atmosphere.
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The glass of the old monitor e televisions cathode ray tube (CRT) turns into ceramic for tiles. This is not about magic, but about GlassPlus, A draft recycling and recovery of materials waste promoted by the ReMedia Consortium, which aims to give new life and new shape to glass through a process focused on sustainability and on respect for the environment. The recovered materials are in fact treated through procedures based on the reduction of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and the diffusion of pollutants into the atmosphere.
From the glass recovered from disused television monitors it is possible to obtain a ceramic body material suitable for the production of tiles. They will be made up of porcelain stoneware compliant with LEED requirements (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), an internationally recognized standard in the field of eco-building. The GlassPlus project has received the support of Eco-Innovation, a program designed to facilitate the marketing of the best innovative products and services at a European level that place eco-sustainability and respect for the Planet at its core.
The project promoted by the ReMedia Consortium, which deals with waste management at national level WEEE, took its first steps in October 2010 and for 2012 has set itself the goal of collecting about 75 thousand tons, including cathode ray tube televisions and old PC monitors, from which the materials necessary for a production of tiles so copious that they can be used for covering ben 83 thousand apartments, with a clear reduction in the use of non-renewable resources, thanks to the recovery and reuse of existing materials.
The glass of the old cathode ray tubes is subtracted from disposal carried out in landfills and immediately transformed through the necessary procedures - with a view to complete eco-sustainability - for the creation of ceramic mixtures suitable for the production of tiles, which they will replace within them the common raw materials used in the construction sector, with an evident resource saving both environmental and economic. The tiles may contain up to 20% of CRT glass and will guarantee designers who use them for the interior cladding of buildings to obtain up to 2 points LEED.
The project in question constitutes a concrete response to the need for dispose of increasingly large quantities of monitors and televisions now considered obsolete, more and more frequently replaced with innovative equipment generated thanks to new technologies, both by families and companies. The benefits of the initiative will be evident both for the construction sector and for that of WEEE.
ReMedia, a non-profit organization founded in 2005, expects a huge marketing and an increasingly widespread diffusion of its products for 2012, also thanks to the support of some partner, among which we find relight e Vallone, WEEE waste treatment plants based respectively in the provinces of Milan and Rome, e Refin (manufacturer of ceramic tiles and porcelain stoneware.
Marta Albè
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