CUT YOUR TV DISPOSAL COST... IN HALF!

We show you how to save $70 when throwing away your TV or other large electronics.

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[robcoastalga]

He is making a point that if you make it costly and difficult to do the better thing, people will do the easier thing.

[matthiaswandel]

I think this would have been much easier using a screwdriver!

[volvo]

I used to live outside 2 cities and everyone charged to get rid of TV's, especially CRT TV's. It was SO common to see TV's thrown out on the side of the road and smashed, thrown in parking lot corners, behind businesses, etc... If they really care about e waste recycling it has to be free.

[CheapCreep]

Alternatively, you could plant the TV in the ground, and harvest the fresh LCD tubes in the fall.
Nature is so beautiful.

[kwaaaa]

My friend's boss ran a computer business (back in the CRT monitor days) and would neatly fold all of the monitor boxes and save them. He would pack all of the broken monitors into the box and sealed it up as if they were new and left it outside his office like it was just delivered. The area was a bad area so those monitors were quickly gone in a day or two.

[gregharbican]

I’ve been disassembling TVs for a few years now. With a power screwdriver, it can be broken down into major parts in about 10-15 minutes ( probably closer to 30 with just a hand screwdriver, but still doable ).


The major parts can then be cut as needed, plastic can be easily disposed of in any trash bin that it will fit, the backing plate is going to be steel or aluminum and can be scrapped. The electronics board can be disposed of at any place that scraps computers. The Frenell lens can be used to make a solar concentrator. Those little glass tubes likely had mercury in them as a UV source…I suspect that is where much of the cost of disposal is.

[henrik.norberg]

Feels like a April fools video 2 days late! I disassembled my TV in 10 minutes reusing the fresnel lens, leds and some electronics.

[KylejvT]

Though I get the point of this vid, I would like to add you should always take apart screens like that for components: Back lights, diffusion screens, lenses, IR sensors, polarizing films... All it really costs is a little time and can gives you a bunch of goodies for other projects.

[kerradeph]

This is why I'm glad there's free electronics recycling where I live.

[dustin]

Honestly, I would really like to see you show your viewers how to safety tear down a flat-screen to extract the electronic components for recycling. I've done it half a dozen times and it's actually pretty easy, and some of the backlight and diffusion layers are really useful for lighting.

[baraBober]

Did not expect that. I thought you would take it apart, and save useful parts

[professortrog]

Over here (the Netherlands, perhaps more parts of the EU too) we pay the disposal fee when purchasing any electrical device. Protects the country against dumping, and protects your lungs from silicosis by taking a saw to a silicon based screen.

[Orofino]

Showing exactly what people do. We find these in the woods, hucked off the side of the road.

[peterwatt]

LCD monitors are a source of interesting parts. Backlights are essentially low profile light integrating and releasing assemblies. They are a useful source of optical sheet materials for photography for example.

[Cinemaaereo]

Here in Brazil everything is so expensive that these broken TVs are sold as "used with defect".

[erik]

a screwdriver would've been more efficient, you can take them down to bits with 20 screws removed, then you dont have all that dust and crap. plus you can salvage stuff for other projects. You basically just have to remove the motherboard and leds, the rest is regular consumer waste and scrap metal

[misterdubity]

When they said "The fee is $70", they were really saying "We want you to leave it on the side of the road or dump it into a river to make as much pollution as possible".

[TheMitchyevans]

Usually I feel like I learned something from this channel. Not today, unfortunately. :(

[paulmichaelfreedman]

In the Netherlands we pay a premium on top of the selling price, to cover the cost of disposal/recycling after it's useful life. So we can dispose of this kind of equipment for free.

[BorkToTherd]

Actually you should have made it into an "artificial skylight". Behind the image screen is a really efficient sheet/screen to spread the light. You can either drive the original LEDs or add strip LEDs to make a great light panel. You could even go RGBW LEDs and get any tunable color lighting that you want.