Title: What You Should Know About Recycling Old TVs
Headings: What You Should Know About Recycling Old TVs
What You Should Know About Recycling Old TVs
You Can’t Have Too Many TVs – Or Can you?
What’s In a TV Anyway?
Why Disposing of E-Waste is Challenging
So How Can You Dispose of Your Old TV?
Got a New TV? What About Your Old One?
You Can't Simply Toss Your Old TV
Getting Rid of Those Old TVs is Still a Chore

Content: Why Disposing of E-Waste is Challenging
Your television is properly considered part of a category of waste known as “e-waste.” According to the RecycleNow website: “E-waste is an informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their “useful life.” E-waste is anything with a circuit board. Look for products with digital displays & programmable features. Examples include TVs, office equipment, kitchen appliances, household & bath appliances, computer equipment and consumer electronics.” In fact, many electronic devices besides TVs contain toxic substances such as lead, mercury, beryllium and cadmium. This makes recycling them is difficult and costly even though it is illegal to simply dump them in about half the country. And older TVs with fragile and heavy cathode ray tubes pose a special challenge for disposal or recycling. It used to be that in the recycling and recovery industry old TVs could be profitably dismantled and their components recovered.