Yup. Here's a link that will help you locate a nearby facility Art & Entertainment | Earth911.comElectronics recycling center. State law requires it, heavy fines for dumping elsewhere.
Yup. Here's a link that will help you locate a nearby facility Art & Entertainment | Earth911.com
sorry to hear that it is made so difficult for you.A good try. This may help some, but the one location nearest to us... is 30 miles, and accepts electronics only for their own town residents. There is one about 70 miles away, but they don't accept CRT Televisions, only LEDs. Chicago is the closest (95) miles and two recycling locations are shown.
None of our local resale stores accept TV's, and the one in the next town that does accept TV's, but only after they have been checked to be in working condition.
We have one day a year where our town provides for disposing of electronics, but there is a limit of three items.
We DO have substantial fines for illegally disposing of electronics, but the town offices don't have any suggestions for disposal.
Am thinking that there may be thousands of electronics buried in back yards all across the nation.
Just watched a TV show that told the story of plants in India, hiring young people to recycle electronics that come from American Recycling companies. Young people who are dying from the toxic metals and gases that come from the reclamation process.
Interesting that we pay a disposal fee when we buy tires or lead acid storage batteries, but none when buying electronics.
A good try. This may help some, but the one location nearest to us... is 30 miles, and accepts electronics only for their own town residents. There is one about 70 miles away, but they don't accept CRT Televisions, only LEDs. Chicago is the closest (95) miles and two recycling locations are shown.
(2) Here's another solution. Call your local city or county, whichever oversees trash collection in your area. Ask them how to get rid of an older television. Here, if you just put a big CRT TV at the curb separate from your other trash, it will be picked up for recycling on one of the two weekly trash collection days. Frank did that just last year.
(3) And finally, here's a third solution. After Hurricane Katrina, we didn't have trash collection so with some effort I located a trash hub of sorts about 4-5 miles from here where I had to take my storm debris. It still exists and is easily available to residents, free, and in a convenient location, although again, few know about it so it is not so busy now as it once was.
If nothing else works, put it on the curb with a sign that says, " For Sale $100". Don't lock it.
Hate to pay somebody $150-plus just to haul 2 TVs for us, but that's what things are coming to...we pay, and pay, and pay for things we can't do ourselves.
Best Buy takes electronics including computers and printers. If it works, there is FreeCycle or Craigslist.