A Proposal of a new Methodology for the Optimization of WEEE Management process in a company producing Cathode Ray Tubes

In this paper, through suitable energetic balances, we quantified the energy saving obtainable by reducing the quantity of raw materials (glass) feeding the process, through the closed-loop recycling, of the cathode ray tube glass that reached the end of its life cycle. For this purpose we adopted a methodology called FIAI Method. Such method consists of the introduction of two parameter aiming at controlling both the practicability of the investment concerning the environmental improvement (FI) and the advantage that such intervention causes as regards environmental impact and general energy saving (AI).