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SWANN,the Solid Waste Agency of Northwest Nebaska, is trying to decide what to do with some 60 computer monitors left in Chadron dumpsters earlier this month.
Executive Director Jack Nemeth says the old-style cathode ray tube monitors pose environmental problems because of the lead and rare metals they contain.
A growing number of states prohibit disposing of monitors and tvs with cathode ray tubes in landfills because of the threat of groundwater contamination, but Nemeth says that's not the case in Nebraska, at least not yet.
He thinks SWANN will probably place these monitors in its landfill north of Chadron because there's no market for them...not even in recycling.
SWANN does not charge any additional fees to its customers for disposing of computer monitors, but does limit how much toxic waste a customer can dispose of each month. In this case, Nemeth says the monitors were put in the dumpsters as the result of a misunderstanding.
He says they'd been purchased from the Chadron school district as surplus at an auction and been donated to a refurbishing program in Iowa, but were mistakenly put in the dumpsters instead of being delivered to Iowa.
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