Local Yard Has Started Taking TVs As Shred

I went to the yard today with some shred and 3 TVs (crt). When I got there I noticed there were TVs (crt and lcd) in the shred pile and thought to myself "someone hasn't been doing their job today". Unload, pull up to small scale, fill cart with e-waste and go in. As I'm waiting I hear the scale guy telling the people in front of me that TVs go in the shred pile now. Whuh? Not only does this mean that there's no way they are getting recycled properly now, I just lost up to $.04/lb depending on the list price. WTF? Got no explanation other than "We will still take TVs, they just go in the shred now".



I will still pick up TVs now, but I have to limit how far I will go to get them. I still make good coin of the innards, I just won't make as much on the whole.

I'm starting to wonder what's up with this place as they stopped taking sealed units (a/c, fridge, etc.) "unless the lines are cut and evacuated" and now this, I guess I should get off my butt and start looking a little further than the next town for a decent e-waste yard.

how can they take them as shred? or at all? there are too many dangerous substances in them.

Look at his location, I believe another member above the border is able to take his crts to his yard as well.

Well, id hate to be the one picking up all the glass pieces from the tv's so they dont pop people's tires.. lol. Even if my yard took CRT's as shred i wouldn't turn them in. im sure they would take a large percentage out of the shred weight due to the weight of the tv glass. Then that would offset the rest of the load as well. Idk, i might be wrong, but I know they take out percentages of plastic/wood from the loads i take in.

Could you imagine being parked next to another truck in the offload spot and having someone toss a tv into the pile and have it go KALBOOEY!!! when it hit another piece of scrap? I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the person next to that person tossing it.

if it isn't illegal NOW it WILL be...the issue is the lead in the glass and the other solder etc that can get swept or seep into the water table...I mean WHO thinks that is a good idea??? Not rocket science....CRT's and tube tv's need to be recycled properly.

::shaking my head::

I bring in about 150 lbs of copper per month just from tvs. I love and will keep popping them. Here is my general rule. When I see them, I bend them over, respectfully take all the valuables out, close up nicely, put it back in its up-standing position and be on my way. For every 50 tvs I come across, I might only have to bring one. My ultimate goal, don't bring home the cow if you can get the milk freely.

Firstly, yes, I'm in Canada, specifically Ontario, so there is some govt subsidization of recycling CRTs. Second, my main worry was the same as expressed above, about how there is hazmat in them and how they will undoubtedly leak into the ground. The glass is another issue I hadn't even thought of yet but I will be all over them to keep it clean. The ones I saw yesterday were unbroken, and this place does always have someone supervising the piles and removing things that don't belong so I don't know if they will be keeping them separate in bins like they use to or if they will just shred them with all else.

I get .085/lb shred right now and before I was getting up to .13/lb for e-waste (crt included) if I had 50lbs+.

The garbage truck picks them up, so the disposal of the tv is a non issue. Also, when it comes to projection tv, the garbage truck will not take them as is, so I do them a favor when I neatly take them apart in front homes.