CRTs are delivered as an intact tube to CRT Recycling Australia. 

Using specially designed processes and machinery, the CRT tube has the metal contamination and phosphor coatings removed and is separated into panel glass and funnel glass. The glass is then ready to be processed through the cleaning system. This unique process successfully removes all CRT manufacturer coatings such as graphite and silicate conductive coating, iron oxide, aluminium oxide,  and some other substances depending on who the original CRT manufacturer was.  

On completion of the processing, a once problematic waste stream has now been transformed into a useful product that can be used in glass-to-glass recycling.

Glass-to-glass recycling offers the highest environmental outcome for CRT glass.

In addition to removing lead from the municipal waste stream, glass-to-glass recycling avoids the environmental impacts associated with mining and processing raw lead from ore, by supplying lead in the form of CRT glass, for CRT glass manufacturing. It also provides significant savings in energy and saves resources such as water and other raw material inputs for the CRT manufacturer.