Am i the only one who finds Tvs NOT worth it?' - Page 4

Be a one man operation, an not have to worry about a fee.

Oh and live in a state that doesn't make you jump through hoops or tons of red tape.



Sirscrapalot - Keep bringing me tv's

pick up tvs all the time. I actually picked up 4 on fri from the trash place when I went to pay my trash bill. I keep the abs plastic, and all the screws metal etc I keep as well as the wires, yoke, and board/boards. Even now keeping the electron gun for the glass bars for mtpglass (just another piece of the money pie). The only thing I have to get rid of is the tube. When I get 15-20" I call the county solid waste/recycling center and they come get them!!!
In my opoion u can't beat it. So anyone around close reading this and don't want to mess with tvs, send them my way. :-)

pre-Madona pretty boys

LOL. Some of this stuff has me scratching my head. I think he means "Primadonna" and it's probably not meant as a compliment. Colorfull though; I think I'll file this one away for future use. Thanks for the education.

I'll take TV's all day long, any kind and any size. Goodwill takes any amount I have, no questions asked and they even do all the unloading.

I refuse to take CRTs or monitors. They take up space, my return on materials wasn't worth it, and now I'm going through EPA licensing which pretty much prohibits accepting VDD's. The glass is what they are concerned about and I've found a way dispose it all legally, but it costs .50/# to get rid of. I just tell everyone to drop them at Best buy. BTW, it's illegal to dispose of a VDD (Video Display Device) in the trash or recycling. It has to be properly recycled at a smelter.

Good think I can drop them off at my town's recycling center stripped or not. They also pick them up during the spring/fall clean ups. An it's a normal trash truck that does it. Feel free to call the EPA on them tho, I'd get a kick seeing them hit with a fine.

Anyhow..off to check on the cooler contents, temps are dropping an I don't need broken bottles in my cooler.

Sirscrapalot - I'm going to drink your blood from a boot. - Jack Reacher...Good books, not so good movie.

The local solid waste division/recycling center in my ares (south central ky) takes tvs. For the ones that people drop off they have the county inmates that are on work release break them apart and they get the copper etc out and take to scrap yard. Of corse I break them down myself, and when I get 15-20 I can call the recycling center and they will come get them for free. Of corse they dispose of them properly. Just like the sheet glass that they come get for free, (I work part time installing vinyal replacement windows, and get a lot of windows with alum frames), they have a bin for the leaded glass.
The local trash company, which is Waste Management, gives me the tvs, I break them down, and take the leaded glass to the recycling center, which is next door to the trash company. If I don't get them, then the trash company takes them to the recycling center and they break them down. The way I look at it is why let them get the money, when I can do it myself.
Everyone needs to check in with there local solid waste coordinater or local recycling center. The rules/laws shouldn't vary much from state to state

Another pro-TV guy here. I'm fortunate that our county landfill also has a recycling center that will take the stripped out TVs and the federal pen in Texarkana picks them up and process them at the prison.

I always pick them up. My city has an awesome recycling program that takes tv's (they take the glass and plastic from the big bin at my house).

T.V. s have copper, aluminum, circuit boards (1.30 a lb), and a tiny bit of silver. Tear down is lightning fast too.

Cptroses, I have to agree with u, quick money, easy money. Who can turn that down in our field.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Low grade boards from reg. TV's run from .10 - .25 a lb. You must be talking about flat screen boards.

oops, yeah. 15 cents for the brown 1.35 for the flat screen boards.

To those who operate in a State that still allows you to send CRT glass to the landfill, you are living on borrowed time, so enjoy it while you can. The same EPA that is trying to regulate farm dust and shut down coal fired power plants will force those States to stop dumping leaded glass in the landfills. It's just a matter of time. We process all the e-waste for our county Solid Waste District and the manager there keeps me well informed on this issue.

The absurdity of all this is that the lead is encapsulated in the funnel glass, and cannot be separated without melting the glass again. If you remember from science class, glass is the only thing that water will not dissolve over time, therefore the lead will not leach out, even when buried in a landfill. However, the same people who think farm dust should require an abatement plan also don't care that lead encapsulated in glass is the safest place for it to be, but that is a rant for another forum.

Eventually, Goodwill, Best Buy and the others will be forced to charge a fee for CRT's. If any of you subscribe to E-scrap news, there are several articles lately about LARGE firms processing e-waste for the big-box stores that have shut their doors and abandoned warehouses full of CRT glass because they couldn't afford to pay the processing fees. This will affect us all down the road.

When you are registered with your State EPA, are subject to inspections and have to file annual reports showing where stuff came from and went to, you'll understand why some of us don't like CRT's. In fact, here in Indiana, you can't even store them outside. We know this first hand because the State inspector showed up for an unannounced audit and we happened to have a pile behind the warehouse waiting to be processed. He advised that even the particle board cabinets are considered hazardous because of the formaldehyde used in the manufacture of engineered wood products, and therefore could not be left outside.

As for me and all the other "pre-Madonna's" (and yes, I am old enough to remember rock & roll before Madonna) or "pretty boys", we are just trying to operate our businesses within the laws of our states in order to avoid a rather healthy fine or worse. And yes, we have families to feed too, so don't give me the crap about about doing what you have to to put food on the table. Please consider that a fine could cost a whole more than what you are making from CRT's. There are A LOT of other things we can scrap that return a much higher dividend without the legal exposure.

As I said before, enjoy it while it lasts.

Which is why all mine are being dropped at the local recycle center run by the county/towns. I'll still continue to take tv's. I can throw them in with the trash, but I like going to the recycle center, I get more goodies. I've said it before, I don't deal with Goodwill in any capacity, whether that hurts feelings or not. I will drop them at a best buy tho when I'm in the area, which is rare(It's over an hour away). I like putting the money towards a new purchase, an it's the only way I'll shop at Best buy. I get better deals online through places like Newegg then I ever would at Best Buy.

An I've always said, do it right, or don't do it. Nor have I called anyone names, nor will I.

Appreciate the heads up tho TRB, in all seriousness.

An meanwhile..West Virginia water emergency nears fifth day, with no end in sight - The Washington Post.

Sirscrapalot - It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I smirk a bit when I snag a TV that has the cord cut off. I mean really? You won't take 6 or so screws out to get a fist sized chunk of copper?