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Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009 43, 9245–9251 Evaluating the Economic Viability of Although inexpensive CRTs remain popular in the developing world (4), it is clear that, even for those markets, CRTs will a Material Recovery System: The eventually be supplanted. Inherently, a shift to new display technologies will also drive an increase in CRT device Case of Cathode Ray Tube Glass retirement. These coupled trends directly call into question the ongoing viability of the economically and environmentally , † , § preferred material recovery pathway: the reuse of CRT cullet J E R E M Y R . G R E G O R Y , * † , § into new CRTs. Will the supply of EoL cullet outstrip the M A R I E - C L A U D E N A D E A U , A N D R A N D O L P H E . K I R C H A I N † , § , | capacity of new production? Information about the timing and extent of this oversupply should help stakeholders Materials Systems Laboratory, Engineering Systems Division, identify the need for developing or facilitating other sinks for and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CRT cullet. The issue has urgency due to the rapidly changing Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridg