regulations for my x-mas present this year caught me with my pants down

so for Christmas the crt regulations finally caught up with us over here in our corner of iowa. I new it was coming just did not know when and now I am sitting on about 130 TV's/monitors its all that worse.
I had it easy for a long time though as here before it was that the garbage would not pick them up with out paying but our city grinds and separates our garbage taking out metals and most glass before its used with coal to burn for making our electricity.
so maybe not the greatest recycling but better than land filling it. the best part was that for $22 a truck load I could stack um high and the insides paid for it and a bit of profit as well. so now the even worse and dreaded regulations came from the Grinch down from the mountain and said.....
crts now are considered hazardous waste for over 3 or more and can only be transported and such with out special licensing which I can not get because I am to small to build a regulated facility. so I am limited to landfilling them for 3 a day which is expensive or the city limits to 2 each day which at a car load trash rate of $8 still means $4each. so its going to be a pain slowly slowly having to get rid of them.
on top of which I now have to charge everyone now cause it costing me money which may cost me business because a lot of my regulars give me so much because I save them so much by taking monitors with computers. so because of the influx this time of year and being lazy a bit the last month I am now sitting on so many lumps of coal in my stocking

I'm in the same boat sort of speaking on the crt issue, it might be worth looking into a processing facility that will take them so their not landfilled. Here in NY I can only think of one facility that actually accepts crt stuff and doesn't stockpile em, then exports em. CRT's are fastly becoming a problem all over not just Iowa.

I don't get that many CRT's and when I do I know someone who is always willing to take them. He tells me to just put them on his trailer. It's usually just 2 or 3 but yesterday I left him 20. Not sure what I would do with 130.

Originally Posted by logansryche

I'm in the same boat sort of speaking on the crt issue, it might be worth looking into a processing facility that will take them so their not landfilled. Here in NY I can only think of one facility that actually accepts crt stuff and doesn't stockpile em, then exports em. CRT's are fastly becoming a problem all over not just Iowa.

Crt's have been a problem a long time for a lot of scrappers. Sadly our best solution is to find an exporter . The problem with them in these last few years or more is, that the product manufactured from the glass was new crt's. New products need to be developed that can utilize CRT glass. But that's out of my pay grade. For now I'm good on having a drop off place. But change is coming, I can feel it.

I purged my last load of CRTs a couple of weeks ago. Our town takes all electronics for free, so I hauled a pickup truck load in.

I'm glad to be free of the CRTs. I can't give you much in the way of advice, but if you were in a pinch, maybe there's a recyler that would take them at a collection event???

Originally Posted by junkfreak

Crt's have been a problem a long time for a lot of scrappers. Sadly our best solution is to find an exporter . The problem with them in these last few years or more is, that the product manufactured from the glass was new crt's. New products need to be developed that can utilize CRT glass. But that's out of my pay grade. For now I'm good on having a drop off place. But change is coming, I can feel it.

I got into this trying to avoid exporting at all. We don't need to be sending out junk to other countries. It was suggested to me to contact NuLife here in NY(which I have and am awaiting response) but for now, everyone else who has CRTs should do the same - at least they have the facility to handle this. Sure alot of you guys will have to bite the bullet on shipping but it's better to do that then to give them to some outfit who's just going to export em.

Not me.

We've had these type of regulations in effect for a little bit now, but nowhere near as strict. For example...no limit on turning them in.

No special permit needed to carry so many or any of that nonsense.

This is why you do it right with disposing of them...eventually your town, city, county or state is going to make rules. Would you rather unload 130 whole tv's or find somewhere to dump your several hundred pounds of leaded glass that is now considered hazardous waste by your local government? (Not directed to the OP, just a side note from a prior thread. I know the OP got handled them properly, or so I gather from his own words.)

Sorry to see this happened to you. Especially how strict it is with the limits an permit to carry/drop off more then 3.

I'll keep taking them long as I have an outlet for them.

Sirscrapalot - Getting funky like a monkey.

I'm glad to be done with CRTs... forever. Our town reopened the computer recycling bin (Last outfit refused to pick up all the CRTs), and I jumped on it. The only other facility out here that takes them charges $0.50 per pound.

I hauled a large load in with my truck (8' bed, with a stake rack, stacked cab high). Lesson learned- I won't touch them.

If our town quits taking them again, though, nobody will handle them within 200 miles. The $0.50/pound place is about 200 miles away, and outside of them, it's another 200 miles to another facility.

The law of unintended consequences has yet to be broken.

ya I wont export them with a company that does. it will take time but will still go through the city as its just a smidge better. we do not have a lot of companies around that do recycle and the ones we do are r-2 but with that comes even greater cost as the one close to me is 75cents pound which was quoted to a friend that has similar issues but he does not do electronics but gets them from clean outs. could be cheaper or more now but waiting for a quote as I want them to come get them if I am going to shuck out that much since they can all at one time being certified.
regulations are not a bad thing in general for this as I do what I do to make money while cleaning up peoples trash but for all those who clean up TV's and monitors were I don't pick them up I worry its going to lead to more smashing or hill/ditch dumping that we have had no real problems with before.

I know the one we had near Sioux City wouldn't touch em and neither will the ones up here. CRTs have alot of people on edge.

Ok don't f a round with 3 at a time get with the people who are charging and make a deal with them. You have a bunch, they want them if you have alot they can't think that they will get there price for 1 or 2 of them! When you have many at the same time..

I am with superdave. $.08 per lb. working on my 3rd pickup load of around 1000lbs. I do harvest the easy goodies though. Everyone is getting rid of these things and five years from now everything "we" buy today as far as electronics will be just as plentiful as crt's today. The government will come up with regulations and it will be up to creative people like us to develop a business out it.

Transformers - copper in disguise.

Originally Posted by NHscrapman

New regulations here
All e-waste ranging from Microwaves pc's crt's ext are now subject to $.18/lb fee at the transfer stations. Unintended consequence... they forgot about the couple guys grabbing this stuff for free... It's madness we pass each other 5 times a day with big smiles and waves as we pass each other with our trucks LOADED.
Winter slowdown....not anymore
And they also got a nice new floor scale with digital output down there. I can weigh my copper buckets at and watch the attendants drool over em.

I don't get it. You're doing what 5 times a day?