{"id":49435,"date":"2014-09-25T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=49435"},"modified":"2014-09-25T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:40:01","slug":"ever-happened-first-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ever-happened-first-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ever Happened to Your First Monitor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h4>What Ever Happened to Your First Monitor?<\/h4>\n<p>A company in California (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireclaytile.com\/crt\" target=\"_blank\">fireclaytile.com<\/a>) has developed a fascinating way to re-purpose the glut of old CRT glass in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tile.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tile.jpg\" alt=\"tile\" width=\"489\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tile.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tile-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CRTs make up 60% of all e-waste.<\/p>\n<p>There is over 860 million pounds of CRT glass in the US today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fireclaytile\/assets\/img\/crt\/crt-info.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company in California has developed a fascinating way to re-purpose the glut of old CRT glass in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":49443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[4716,4717],"class_list":["post-49435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-e-waster","tag-recycle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Ever Happened to Your First Monitor?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What Ever Happened to Your First Monitor? 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