[Old1625]

I'm here on a brain-picking mission...

What is the ethical way to dispose of these old CRTs other than smashing them to bits with a sledgehammer and feeding the fragments into your regular rubbish.

We have a "transfer station" in my little town rather than a landfill.

Disposal of anything involving a CRT means fees ranging from 15 dollars and up--depending on size of tube.

There are issues in disposal of CRTs, in that they contain various toxic and supposedly carcinogenic compounds that would be heaved into the environment to endanger any and all if one wants to amuse themselves by demolishing a tube.

Does anyone have any knowledge as to where my recycling center disposes of these sets, and how the tubes and their harmful substances get handled, and where the materials end up.....?

This info I can probably get from a town official, who will hand me a sheet or pamphlet on how this stuff is handled--but perhaps not to the end detail.

Other than that this is a rhetorical question, simply to raise thought about this issue if nothing else...

Anyone with a concrete answer is welcome to chime in...