Televisions and computer monitors are being recycled in South Wales following a £1M investment from the Far East. Citiraya Recycling Technology, one of the worlds leaders in the field of recycling electronic equipment, has opened a new plant in Hirwaun. The company is part of a global, Singapore-based group which specialises in recycling surplus, obsolete and scrap electronics equipment. The firm has invested £1M at Hirwaun, where it will employ 70 people to use, for the first time in the UK, laser separation technology to recycle glass from cathode ray tubes. Laser separation is a new, high-tech solution to the problem of safely separating and recycling the components in cathode ray tubes for re-use. The plant has the capacity to recycle 500,000 cathode ray tubes/year, around 5% of the total volume of redundant tubes from the UK each year.
