By Steve Tarter of the Journal Star - Pioneer Park: It’s where old TV sets go to die — and become useful again.
Not just anywhere in Peoria’s industrial park but at the Kuusakoski Recycling Center, 2022 Townline Road, where cathode ray tubes, the kind found in old TV sets and computer monitors, are processed.The glass is ground up and the lead extracted.
Since opening the facility five months ago, Kuusakoski has processed several million pounds of CRT glass, said Anssi Takala, VP of sales for the company based in Finland that now operates in 12 countries.
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