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recycling tv's etc.
Baltimore County just started accepting, at one of its solid waste
facilities, tv's, computer monitors, vcr's, and some other electronic things. How much recycling is actually done to these things and how important is it to recycle them? They always mention lead first as a dangerous substance in tv's and monitors, but it seems to me, all the lead is in the front panel of the CRT, and it can't escape to poison the earth. Even if the glass is broken, only a little surface is exposed, and I'm not sure if even the lead along that surface can escape. As to the rest, do they clip out the transistors to recycle the germanium? How much recycling do they really do? I was told by a recycler that no one will pay for the stuff, and the counties have to pay them to come and get it. If it were really recycled, wouldn't it be worth something? (The radio didn't say one way or the other if they would now refuse to pick up such things curbside, as they have been doing.) Remove NOPSAM to email me.. |
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