[Wikipedia] "In 19th century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind.[1] Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that which is related to only one kind of delirious idea or ideas. In 1880, monomania was one of the seven recognized categories of mental illness.[2] ...The Cathode Ray Tube, or CRT, is declining in production, declining in demand, and declining in numbers discarded. Markets for CRT glass cullet are shrinking. But most alarming - CRT recycling may be declining in "ewaste" importance.
The demand for CRTs at reuse factories, estimated at over 50,000 units per day ten years ago, has dwindled to a few hundred thousand units per month. I have made a career chasing the White CRT Tube. Now Amazon and Best Buy are setting up takeback programs for small cell phones, ipods, and other hand-held devices - probably to be sold back to the same factories that made them (manufacturer takeback), the exact same business model I developed for the CRT computer monitor. In other words, sell them back to Asia, the same as you do warranty returns. I'll be without a lot of CRTs to manage, and without many people doing something other than I've been doing. It could get quiet around here.
