The crushing of CRTs implemented by ERI is unique to the e-waste industry. ERI is one of only two companies in California with a containerized CRT Recycling System fed by a technologically innovative system of inter-warehouse CRT conveyers. ERI owns 3 of the 4 CRT Recyling Systems in California and 3 of the 6 operating CRT Recycling Systems in the United States. ERI Fresno is the only facility in the United States to have two CRT crushers under one roof. The CRT Recycling System is capable of crushing 1 CRT tube every 3 to 5 seconds in comparison to the 3 to 5 minutes it takes our competitors. The CRT Recycling System contains an infeed conveyer, CRT crusher, glass conveyor, and a cross-belt magnet.

Once the CRT reaches the recycling system, the CRT is transported up into the infeed opening on the top end of the CRT recycling container. The CRT breaker is inside an 8ft. wide by 9 ft. high by 20ft. long container with the infeed opening on the top of the container. The infeed opening is covered with a protective hood. The hood is supplied with a collection point for connection to the dust collecting system. The dust collection system includes a high efficiency cartridge dust collector. Dust collection pints are at the breaker infeed and outfeed transitions along with the metal and glass discharge openings. The entire 20ft. container has negative air pressure to keep the leaded glass fines or coating flakes that become airborne during the breaking or material movement inside of the container and dust collecting system.

The breaker has rotating flexible impactors driven with a 20 HP motor. A variable speed controller allows the operator of the crusher to modify the impactor speed to produce a larger or smaller glass size distribution depending on the glass market specifications. The glass is then broken but passes the metal frames and components through the breaker in their larger form.

Crushed CRT glass and metal frames or screens exit the bottom of the CRT breaker on to the conveyor. The mixed glass and metal materials travel under the cross-belt magnet. The cross-belt magnet removes the larger metal frames or screens from the crushed glass and transfers the ferrous metal off the side of the conveyor. The crushed glass stays on the conveyor. The metal and crushed glass discharge separately out the side end of the machine into collections bins. The CRT is now completely crushed. The glass bins are placed on the trains and sent to an authorized smelter. All metals and other materials are then sold on the commodities market.