I've been trying to envision a scenario in which all of those particles could exist in transmissible form in a manufacturing environment. Antimony from making the glass, yttrium from the phosphors, etc. My understanding is that when something complex is made, each of the parts is made separately, then gathered in one spot and assembled. For the antimony and the phosphors to come from the same place in Tom Kaye's theory, there would have to be one place that produced each of these components of a cathode ray tube, then assembled it on the spot. I don't think such a place exists. If it does, and someone here knows of it, please let me know.
There are entire towns in China seeing massive collecive health issues from recycling computers for their parts. CRT tubes were the high technology of the late 60's/early 70's. They contain a lot of rare elements and recyclable parts. Watch this video. It's short.
See the part starting at 1:10 where the man is using a small electrical cutter? What interesting particles will come out of that jack in the box? What CRT salvage businesses existed in 1971?
Manufacturing? I have yet to be convinced that it can muster all of the McCrone particles onto a tie.
Salvage? Seeming more likely.
Thoughts?