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Where do all the old TV's go?
By Anthony Ashard
In recent times there has been a sharp increase in the number of cathode ray tubed Televisions being scrapped and dumped, being replaced with new large screen LCD - Plasma and LED televisions. Old televisions & video cassette machines often contain components & chemicals that harm the environment if disposed of improperly. Old equipment can contain chemicals like lead, phosphors and glass. Televisions that are just dumped end up being taken to landfills where they will pollute the surrounding environment and can be dangerous to employees and wildlife. It's our responsibility to dispose old equipment properly. It's nice to go buy a nice new LCD OR Plasma TV, but do we spare a thought for what happens to the old equipment we discard? With an estimated 20+ million unused TVs and computer monitors already in our homes and offices, more initiatives are being introduced in an attempt to prevent old electronics ending up in landfills. There is a wealth of information both online and at your local council offices, offering ways to safely dispose of all your old equipment. Take the time and help make the difference.
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Contributor's Note
Your old TV set can contain up to 8Lbs of lead, a poison that can cause nervous system damage. Lead is there to protect you from radiation while it's still in your TV, but when the TV is crushed during rubbish collection and then in the landfill, bad news: that lead is going to contaminate the environment.
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We're still using it. Haven't dumped it at all. Don't use it to get television in. It sits in the living room without an antenna or cable box with a DVD/VCR player under it and runs kid video pretty much every day. Disposal is going to take some thought when it finally breaks down, but I suspect that may not be for years as the thing seems very, very sturdy. There is only one. We also watch some Netflix DVDs on it. The big screen flat screen one is on the computer and adult movies get run on it sometimes, or other kid video for Sascha. So there's one solution -- if it still works, why get rid of it? Someone in the family will get sosme use out of it. Or you can give it to someone who doesn't have one. Donating a working machine to a homeless shelter or just giving it to someone who's living under the poverty line can keep its useful life going. Edit: YIKES! I had no idea that there was such a thing as a colour TV license! That's a lot of money, it's crazy. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the poor paid it anyway just because television's what you can afford if you don't have anything else. There's nothing like that in the USA, you buy a television, either you get the broadcast television free or get cable and have better programming.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Offering it to a family on the poverty line is all good and fine until they receive a knock on the door from the DTI demanding to see their Television licence. A colour TV Licence costs £142.50 per year!
Sounds like a new verse to a song by Peter, Paul and Mary among many other who did versions of the song back in the '60's Where have all the Flowers gone? A color TV License? How sad is that? I would think that TV's blowin' in the wind would be dangerous. Good Intel with some food for thought.
Thanks, Anthony. This is something that most of us do not think about.
Here we do not have a choice. When anyone buys a new TV there is included in the price a steep fee for disposal of the old one. Personally, I do not watch TV that much and probably will never buy another one.
I am sure people must pay for handing in an old TV in Germany for dumping. In Tenerife, where I stay now, some elite shops will take away anything old which you exchange for a new product from their place. There is also an appropriate office in La Orotava, where you can hand in your discarded TV or any old electronic gadgets. However, where those polluting symbols of modern civilization will really end up is a totally different question.
I've heard of whole vessels chartered just for dumping our modern day trophies. They then take them to 3rd world countries which never say no for any compensation. Well, the peoples at grass roots are not the negotiators for the world dumping industries. The little man in the street will lose out by having his door steps poisoned by the by-products of the wealthy industrial nations. But that isn't how bad it gets in the extreme. All of us will be harmed in the end.
Why?
We only help to poison our communal planet. There is no way out so far. Gabriele
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