Looking for the largest direct-view CRT, the Sony Trinitron PVM-4300

[Electronic M]

Out here the trash won't take electronics but will take furniture (within reason) the town doesn't care what's on your lawn... There's been 3 BPCs that have sat outside for a whole year recently. After they've had a few months to fail to find a home I take the HV cable degaussing coil and HV caps for parts. The handful of people who either don't like TVs in their yard or live in apartments dump their sets in farm fields and ditches nearby...If you try and make people pay for something that used to be free they'll get around paying for it in the ways you least desire...
In my case if I have a junk BPC set (I try to avoid anything that new) or loose CRT, I smash the tube and cabinet to bits seal it in one or more cardboard boxes small enough to slip into the regular house hold trash bags that also have household garbage in them and trick the garbage men into taking it that way.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I smash... to bits... small enough to slip into the regular house hold trash...

Yes! I threw away my house's entire old layer of shingles that way, when I replaced its roof about 10 years ago or so. A pile of them to fill 80% of the can each week, covered with the one bag or so of actual trash I typically have, for a couple of months or so, and the big pile was gone.

If you're familiar with the first generation of Sony 26-inch console TV sets (KV-2642R, KV-2644R, KV-2645R if I remember right) that had really short-lived CRTs, someone gave me a white one in about 1992, and after I gave up trying to do anything to help its CRT, I busted the entire set (that had a cracked and yellowed cabinet) into pieces and "threw it in the trash" over a couple of weeks or so.

"Go to the dump?" "That's what we pay those guys in the trucks to do for us."