What do you with your bad or busted picture tubes? Do you just dispose of them in the trash, or are you supposed to take them to a certain location? I have a couple that are busted and not sure what to do with them.

I personally would bring them to a disposal center that handles lead (in the glass).

Don't have any bad picture tubes here though that are damaged.

In more and more areas, banned from regular trash due to lead content.

About two years ago around here sanitation has stopped picking up ANY electronics....people wanting to dispose of things have to bring them to the town e-recycling center.

My neighbor has had a six foot tall projection set sitting by his garage for over a year that sat out front by the curb for about 3 trash days. But he has a pickup truck and zero excuses.

Best bet is to smash it to small pieces, and hide it in the trash so they'll pick it up before they know what it is (*was) :angel: …

Charles

Around here, anything fairly small will be picked up by pickers for the metal content - but with TVs, they are smart enough to smash and grab the yoke and leave the rest.

When I say picture tube, I mean picture tube. Not the whole tv. For whatever reason, I have a couple of tvs that the picture tubes were busted. I have pulled the picture tubes and now need to dispose of them. Yokes and rest of the components are being saved by me. At least for the time being.

Its not PROFITABLE to toss electronics into the trash, hence all the stupid disposal laws... Smash em small and toss them in the trash.....

Tvs around here must not be too dangerous to the enviroment if hole in the wall recyclers around here keep leaving fliers twice a month on our doors wanting tvs, computers, and such..

I remember taking 2 CRTs to a disposal place and the reciever said "What are those things?" Guess they dont recognize them unless surrounded by a tv :D

The trash company can eat SHIrTs..... :D

SR

Best bet is to smash it to small pieces, and hide it in the trash so they'll pick it up before they know what it is (*was) :angel: …

Charles

I have to agree here for at least two reasons....

If it does not have the tv shell to protect it, they may not want to take it thinking it will break while they handle it. If it's already broken, then surely the bad stuff will get out and they will have to pay big time to clean it up.... (naturally not knowing anything about it, like the lead for example, it's embedded in the glass, can't get on them...)

If it doesn't LOOK like everything else they get, they sure don't want it.....

Breaking it up more and putting it in several bags and hiding it will most likely prevent a wasted trip in which you will have to bring it home, and then try and hide it in something....

If it is a delta gun color or a pre-1970s monochrome tube and still under vacuum (just no emission) I'd save it so it can be rebuilt when the ETF gets going on rebuilds.

Anything else I'd break up and throw out. Be sure to break the evacuation nipple at the end of the neck to release the vacuum before breaking it up.

I recently obliterated three 27" picture tubes for the very reason of hiding the glass in boxes in the dumpster, haha. The metal I just folded/stomped flat and threw it in as-is. I don't have a vehicle and can't pay to have that stuff hauled away right now. Besides, I like giving the proverbial middle digit to the government in little ways anyway.

I used to just break them up and throw then in the regular household bin. Though with the weight limit it could take a couple of weeks to get rid of a 32" CRT.

Now I screw the cabinets back together after removing the parts I want and drop them off at the recycler. They won't take anything in pieces. If I'm particularly shitty with them that day I'll pull the yoke and anything else of scrap value leaving them with only plastic and glass.

There are effectively no curbside collections here anymore for anything other than the weekly garbage and recycling bins. In theory you are allowed to book one collection a year for things that don't fit or should not go in the bins, but there are so many conditions and limitations that it isn't worth the effort.

Someone please explain how lead alloyed with silica (glass) is a hazard? It cannot leach out of the glass. That's why vitrification is used to dispose of radioactive waste.

http://www.gses.com/simulation/nuclear-waste-management-disposal

If it's good enough for that, I'm not too concerned about tiny quantities of lead contained in glass. Another example of how the elected officials have no understanding of science, unless it can be used as a boogie-man to make a buck.

Right on Carmine !

At least there are a few thinkers out there...... I think though, that it is the rest of the electronics in the tv as a package that makes more of the leaching problem if it ends up in the landfill.... I think also our criminal enterprise wanted to push new crap on us to un-sputter the ekonim'e, the same way the slam older cars with safety and pollution crap to speed along new sales..... They love demonizing CRT's boy, for that lead...... But not those LCD's for the mercury..... at least not yet.....

I think also our criminal enterprise wanted to push new crap on us to un-sputter the ekonim'e, the same way the slam older cars with safety and pollution crap to speed along new sales..... They love demonizing CRT's boy, for that lead...... But not those LCD's for the mercury..... at least not yet.....
Yeah, just how dull-performing and ugly can cars get before the public loses interest in new ones?

Think of how much of a pollution problem the mob, uh, I mean government will have once those mercury-laden early-failure LCDs start being disposed of by the skidload.

Every dollar the power company spends on an old, evil "energy hog" refrigerator are dollars they don't have to spend upgrading their power production... Which is why they are so interested in pushing it.

Never mind that plain ol' attrition would do the job eventually and that everyone taken out of service equals another sent over from a nation with no pollution controls; on a container ship that burns the dirtiest form of oil available.

But I digress. Junk-science environmentalism is the new state religion. I just hope the NSA didn't hear me blasphemy.

Agreed. And it's funny in a way that the technology to manufacture items went over seas, but the technology to do it clean, safe, and with reduced pollution, which does exist, did not go over seas....

Even better, on abc world news a few weeks ago they said the pollution from China is now traveling over one of those Jet Streams to California.

ps when we replaced our energy hog frig. with a new one, it cut our energy by 40% on that device.... Same size, but we got the most efficient one...

I take my electronic junk to the ecocenter. Here it's "free" (paid with our taxes) and I have no maximum, so why bother to smash junk just to put it in the trash...I just haul it there and it takes me 30 mins , everything is done , and at least everything is reclycled or safely disposed, and the stuff that can be saved is tested and given away to people that need it. its win win win!

I take my electronic junk to the ecocenter. Here it's "free" (paid with our taxes) and I have no maximum, so why bother to smash junk just to put it in the trash...I just haul it there and it takes me 30 mins , everything is done , and at least everything is reclycled or safely disposed, and the stuff that can be saved is tested and given away to people that need it. its win win win!
For anyone with a vehicle and lots of money to blow on fuel, sure.

For anyone with a vehicle and lots of money to blow on fuel, sure.

Well for the whole 2$ of fuel it takes to get there and back I look at it as an investment for the environement, and it really doesn't bother me. Of course, if you have no mean to get there in the first place...just dump it in the trash.

If it is within a month or so of the the annual electronics recycle day in the county, I'll carry it up there (provided I have time.) Otherwise, the trash can the town provides for pickup will hold a 21" b/w crt nicely. It's dumped by robotic arm, nobody ever sees inside the can. I do make sure and air them out before throwing them away, of course.

I take my electronic junk to the ecocenter. Here it's "free" (paid with our taxes) and I have no maximum, so why bother to smash junk just to put it in the trash...I just haul it there and it takes me 30 mins , everything is done , and at least everything is reclycled or safely disposed, and the stuff that can be saved is tested and given away to people that need it. its win win win!

That's how it should be done. Here the stuff is just crushed up and loaded into containers to be processed overseas. Knowing this makes it especially frustrating seeing pallets of stuff that is still recent enough to be useful sitting in the yard: 3-5 year old off lease computer gear for example.

Attempts to buy the stuff from them (by a business I did some work for, in quantity - it wasn't one guy walking in trying to buy one unit) were refused without even discussing price. I suspect because they are milking various "green" grants and tax breaks.

Recycled or crushed, the bulk of the stuff is headed to china to create more junk and more pollution anyway.

Recycled or crushed, the bulk of the stuff is headed to china to create more junk and more pollution anyway.

Or transformed to those shiny new LCD display we all love :P

With bare/loose CRTs, I agree with the others who say "break them up and put in your regular trash". What they don't know won't hurt YOU. I did so years ago with one of those super heavy 26" Sony CRTs. In fact, the whole set (the white plastic one) went into the trash other than parts I saved, once I made all of the pieces small enough.

Of the TVs and monitors I threw into the dumpster intact, without airing the CRTs, I wonder if there was a loud POOM! at any time that scared the crap out of any bystanders, haha. I don't do that anymore, there was just a time I was afraid to open them, what with the lack of a HV probe.

It's a wonder I never got shocked in my youth when I took apart a lot of sets without really knowing what I was doing, including a later-model tube B&W 12" Admiral. I always hated that TV because it was B&W. I have no desire to get another even though it was my first TV. I went ape over the 1989 Magnasonic 19" color set I got as an additional Christmas gift in 1992. That thing cost a c-note even though it lacked the remote and control panel door. That lost vertical deflection in '05 and was tossed. I have no desire to replace that either, too new for my liking.

I'd tell y'all how I dispose of 'em, but it would make a lot of you MAD...It involves a fully-automatic weapon.. And most of you CAN'T have one..

I'd tell y'all how I dispose of 'em, but it would make a lot of you MAD...It involves a fully-automatic weapon.. And most of you CAN'T have one..
Yeah, I guess a Tommy Gun will have to do for most of us. ;) Of course those of us here in Canuckistan can't carry a handgun at all, prolly can't have the Tommy Gun either...

That's how it should be done. Here the stuff is just crushed up and loaded into containers to be processed overseas. Knowing this makes it especially frustrating seeing pallets of stuff that is still recent enough to be useful sitting in the yard: 3-5 year old off lease computer gear for example.

Attempts to buy the stuff from them (by a business I did some work for, in quantity - it wasn't one guy walking in trying to buy one unit) were refused without even discussing price. I suspect because they are milking various "green" grants and tax breaks.

I've had this same experience trying to buy things from recyclers.

I've had this same experience trying to buy things from recyclers.
Yeah, businesses have some dumbass rules, that's for sure.

I have to agree here for at least two reasons....

If it does not have the tv shell to protect it, they may not want to take it thinking it will break while they handle it. If it's already broken, then surely the bad stuff will get out and they will have to pay big time to clean it up.... (naturally not knowing anything about it, like the lead for example, it's embedded in the glass, can't get on them...)

If it doesn't LOOK like everything else they get, they sure don't want it.....

Breaking it up more and putting it in several bags and hiding it will most likely prevent a wasted trip in which you will have to bring it home, and then try and hide it in something....

I remember a story where somebody took a case of radioactive strontium rods to a hazmat roundup, and they had no clue what they were until it was too late (already accepted and shipped out). There was no leak, but it caused a huge panic! (the rods had been swiped from a nuke lab 50 years before).

Charles

I remember a story where somebody took a case of radioactive strontium rods to a hazmat roundup, and they had no clue what they were until it was too late (already accepted and shipped out). There was no leak, but it caused a huge panic! (the rods had been swiped from a nuke lab 50 years before).

Charles
Haha :D

Of the TVs and monitors I threw into the dumpster intact, without airing the CRTs, I wonder if there was a loud POOM! at any time that scared the crap out of any bystanders.
Years ago, I watched and listened to what happened as a trash truck did its crushing action on one or more under-vacuum TV sets. I did not hear a specific sound other than the normal sounds to be expected from things getting crushed, and nothing came flying back out from under the crusher panels.

Last eCycling event I went to didn't have a huge amount of interesting stuff-some early 80s Sonys were the most noteworthy TV's. They did have a pre-war Silvertone console radio, somewhat higher-end. I said something to the guy who seemed to be in charge but he just cracked a slight smile and waved me toward the exit. Maybe it got rescued further down the line.