operating for the past six weeks and would like to start recycling CRTs from 1 January 2010.

Metal from the plant goes to Southern Cross Metals for further processing and the plastic goes to Astron Plastics to be recycled into pellets and sent to extrusion companies.

"We have all the facilities like trucks, forklifts and presses. The CRT plant would not be easy to plonk in, but if we have the government to help us it would be possible."

Shredfast, the parent company of Planet Green, is of $350,000 to establish the new plant.

"I'm trying to give consumers and businesses an opportunity to come to a suburban recycling centre for e-waste," Campbell said.