On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:06:43 -0400, Nancy Young <replyto@inemail>
wrote:

>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


Goodwill accepts electronics. If it works, they resell it after
cleaning the hard drive. If it is not working it goes to center that
strips and sells the material in them. Check with your local Goodwill
and see if they will pick up.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)