Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
Don't take this the wrong way but you don't seem to ever think outside the box.......I know you are older and this is not how you make a living but some of us do........You always suggest the easy way out and want to just pawn stuff off onto municipalities or 3rd world countries...........I know from your posts that you cherry pick a little ewaste at this point but some of us actually need this type of material to continue to grow..........Hopefully one day I will make it to your point in life and will be able to kick back and tinker with some stuff but right now I can't turn down anything as bills just get larger each and every month

If you need TVs to be able to grow, oh boy I could get many tons of them. I never touch them because to dispose of the actual waste legally (in my state, obviously your state may be different) is a huge expense/pain. There are many way to dispose of them illegally or at the very least in a gray-area of legality, but for me, who is not doing this as primary income, it isn't worth the hassle. This is the same reason I don't take anything with refrigerant. I know (or have seen) scrappers who assumedly do scrapping full time, who will just poke a hole in an AC or fridge and let all the freon just leak out. That is illegal, and bad for the environment, but hey if you gotta eat and put a roof over your head, I can see why many would do that.



I definitely respect anyone who is doing this full time. The complicated legal hoops are not only hard to decipher to determine what you need to do to operate legally, but also cost a ton of money. It is set up so only big business can legally run these types of things and they are designed to keep competition and little guys from getting in, all under the guise of environmental protection. I looked into getting R2 certified, but you need a warehouse or commercially zoned space, thousands in inspections, and tons of other stuff. Someone said it can cost over $100k to get certified, and is a few thousand each year to keep certified. I imagine whatever it takes to be able to do tvs legally is similar (or could even be r2? does r2 cover tvs?)..... it just isn't feasible, so people keep doing it just under the radar.