Living in the future is great because we can tile our homes with the souls of thousands of hours of news broadcasts, commercials, Windows 95 startup screens and video games, all while helping the environment.
The GLASS Plus project, an endeavor by a number of European tech companies, is producing tile made from recycled cathode ray tubes, the vacuum tubes which used electrons to create the pictures on television sets and computer monitors back from when these were hulking monstrosities and not the slimmer, sexier LCD televisions we enjoy today (did I just fat-shame old TVs?).
A description of the project on EcoWeb says that the endeavor is expected to create 7.4 million square meters of product in three years, saving 37,000 tons of old CRTs from the landfill. The ceramic tiles will be treated to provide high-quality Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) products for use in green building projects. The project managers state they expect to collect 75,000 tons of old TV sets and monitors, which will give them enough material to clad 83,000 apartments.
The tiles pictured below have a nice smokey color, but unfortunately I don’t see a port to plug my 25-year-old Sega Genesis into. Too bad.
Bill Rodgers is a Contributing Editor at CFile.
Above image: Tile from the GLASS Plus project.
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Ceramic CRT tiles from the GLASS Plus project.
View more information about GLASS Plus on EcoWeb
The project web site, which was down at the time of this writing
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