On 5/27/2012 8:27 AM, George wrote:
> On 5/25/2012 11:29 PM, Nancy Young wrote:

>> Nobody wants it. I couldn't give mine away, either. It's the
>> first time I replaced a tv that was working fine, but I had
>> to get that big clunky thing out of here.

> Same here. First time I replaced a working TV. It took two people and a
> hand truck to wheel it out.

Right? Mine wasn't even that big, but it was heavy and
awkward. Not surprising, since that's the reason I wanted a
new tv. I just thought How did we get it up here in the first
place?

> Nobody wanted it. But we lucked out. The
> county already announced they were overwhelmed with electronic recycling
> from the prior year. A local TV station has an annual home show at a
> local mall. In conjunction with that they were going to hold free
> electronic recycling. I couldn't believe it the traffic. There were two
> queues formed leading into two unloading areas and there had to be
> 10,000 TVs near where we unloaded.

Cool. We have to take ours to the town recycling center. I see
what happens to refrigerators and the like, it's stripped down almost
completely recycled. I wonder what they do with tv sets.

nancy