governments failure to be proactive on the CRT disposal issue

Originally Posted by Scrappah

This just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

It's no secret that i'm no big fan of government involvement because it tends to create problems not solve them.

If you check out most of the "bubble back" tv's and computer monitors going into the waste stream they're still working. The reason they're being replaced is because they've been made obsolete by government decree.

This goes back to the Clinton era. There was the mandate that all of the broadcasting stations had to switch over their equipment to send out their signal in HD by a certain date. Then there was that government program where you could send in and get a coupon for a free converter box so that your analog tv could still receive the signal but that kind of setup doesn't work well if you're more than 60 miles from the broadcast station. ( In this area, it's all but useless.)



It looks like the guvmin't got the ball rolling on this cluster***k.

I think we can all agree that this issue is a huge toxic waste problem that's a threat to people & the environment ?

For the record it was the invention of the LCD that made CRT tvs and monitors obsolete, not the government. True they pushed to get one into every home in america, but it's more the evolution of electronics rather then program intervention.