On 5/27/2012 10:06 AM, Nancy Young 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

Don't know. Most of the large scale recycling processes don't work out
because they are so many different materials involved in TVs and
monitors. So the equipment and labor needed to separate the different
materials is higher than the resale value of those materials.