Mike Hancock

Mike Hancock, president of CTBI Co., said his business recycles about 80,000 pounds of computer equipment a week.The monitors are sold to companies that will reuse the cathode ray tubes.Most of the rest is shipped for recycling to smelters in other states or China, which has been criticized in the past for simply dumping equipment.

But Hancock is quick to produce environmental regulatory documentation for the buyers he deals with.