So I used to sell to Egypt, now I don't.
I used to sell to Indonesia, but it's illegal now, so I stopped.
And for years I exported to Malaysia for refurbishing, and that factory - which recycled 100% of accidental breakage at the CRT glass furnace in KL - no longer speaks English. We gave them a price cut in return for their obtaining ISO14001 certification. They began a takeback program, creating a domestic Malaysia CRT recycling infrastructure...
It's all dead. Supply and demand.
The E-Waste Industry, at the EScrap Conference in Orlando, will be talking about there being no demand for CRT glass, cathode ray tube cullet. But that's not exactly what there's no demand for.
There's no demand for self-righteous bigotry and b******t.
Back to the drawing board. I can cross off lots of places that are expensive to visit, expensive to audit, and give R2 Auditors the heeby-jeebies. Turns out, the heeby-jeeby feeling is mutual. In Vermont, we have practically eliminated CRT export for reuse. I could become an E-Steward right now, if I was willing to pay the dues. I'm not doing anything they don't want me to do.
So gee... I should look back at the invitation to join E-Stewards, the gracious invitation extended to me last
winter. Sure, I'm qualified now to be a "steward". But, it's wasted on me. See, I'm really not into calling innocent people guilty, and the whole making myself look like a better recycler by making other people look worse. If an all white country club chased off my colored fiance, and said now I could be a member, I wouldn't be too keen with all that.
I'm E-Steward qualified, E-Steward eligible, E-Steward compliant. I'm a good ole e-waste steward boy. Just got to show them my downstreams and write them a check.
