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To: coug who wrote (39133)	8/21/2008 2:34:17 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217852

TV Sets (CRT) replacement by flat screens. "legislators increasingly require that the old components be harvested rather than dumped. Cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), for example, have been banned from landfills in California, Maine, and Massachusetts." Huge market for recycling stuff. But whwere is the manpower? Federal Prison Industries Inc., the Washington, D.C.-based government-owned corporation that provides industrial work experience for inmates in federal prisons, saw an opportunity—a quickly growing industry that has low equipment costs and uses large numbers of basically unskilled workers. The company, which has the trade name Unicor, estimates that in the next five years more than 250 million computers will become obsolete, producing nearly 9 billion pounds of scrap materials, according to its Web site. spectrum.ieee.org