Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: "In many cases, your old TV isn't recycled at all and is instead abandoned in a warehouse somewhere, left for society to deal with sometime in the future," reports Motherboard, describing the problem of old cathode-ray televisions and computer monitors with "a net negative recycling value" (since their component parts don't cover the cost of dismantling them). An estimated 705 million CRT TVs were sold in the U.S. since 1980, and many now sit in television graveyards, "an environmental and economic disaster with no clear solution." As much as 100,000 tons of potentially hazardous waste are stockpiled in two Ohio warehouses of the now-insolvent recycler Closed Loop, plus "at least 25,000 tons of glass and unprocessed CRTs in Arizona...much of it is sitting in a mountainous pile outside one of the warehouses."
One EPA report found 23,000 tons of lead-containing CRT glass abandoned in four different states just in 2013.

Comments

Fucking Faggoty Ass Liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

First you invent LCD TV because you want to have some kind of posh in home theater entertainment system that you can watch while you are sipping away on your bottled water imported from Fiji. Then you get on those 'stupid racist white trash rednecks' that are not recycling. So you invent government sponsored recycling programs. These government programs give taxpayer money to the corporations that you liberals own so you cans safely and environmentally dispose of all the CRT TV's that are no longer posh enough for your like minded liberal bottled water drinking environmentally conscious left leaning individuals.

I have a solution to all your imaginary problems. Just give your old TV's to a fat redneck. We still use those things. We sit in trailers surrounded by recycled cars / tires, drink water from the hose, and watch TV on good old fashioned cathode ray tubes like God wanted us to.

Re:That's why I pay to recycle monitors

[epine]

I know that's no guarantee but you do the best you can.

Considering how much you originally paid for your deoxygenated speaker wire, I would say $40 is the least you can do.

Were you to model the price signal with quaternion rotation instead, you would discover that the price signal really can spin around to a perfect 180-degree inversion of "the best you can do", given but a sparse free-energy input of mindless optimism, and a scant few months to capture abandoned area under the curve (and that's not even including the machine learning revolution).

Perhaps capitalism eventually does the right thing, but not until after imbibing all the loose sugar.

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First Law of Mice and Men: If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.

Corollary: If something can lead to an easy buck, it will lead to an easy buck.

Unfortunately, all the quaternions in this picture belong to the increasingly neutered EPA.