GIS Story: How Tons of Old TV and Computer Displays Could Become New Sustainable Buildings

The death of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays—once commonplace for TVs and computers—is a far too familiar story of what happens when a popular technology becomes obsolete. Once expensive, sought after equipment is suddenly, in the blink of an eye, obsolete junk. But what happens when there’s nowhere to put that junk, not even a landfill? CRTs contain funnel and panel glass…

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