Recycling TVs (and monitors)

Channel Hopper

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My Satellite Setup
A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
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UK
OK-The dilema

You are asked to install a TV aerial to allow decent Freeview reception, only because the customer has bought (or been bought) a flatscreen digital television.


The earlier model (quite often a good wide screen tube TV) is now relegated to the other end of the living room, and will shortly be taken down to the local tip, even though it could be less than six or seven years old, and with a good clean working remote control.

I used to offer a free collection and take them down to the few retirement homes in my area, often replacing the ancient piece of junk that gave pensioners cataracts in the day room, but now I have run out of places to take them to.

Does anyone know how to pass them on, without having to go down the Freecycle route (a pain as I have a narrow front pathway and absolutely no spare room in the house) - even the second car is now full of *useful* motorcycle parts.


Btw, I still use two tube TVs at home, one of them being the first Bush Integrated TVs, and apart from one repair not so long ago, runs perfectly (well apart from the lack of Freeview updates, but I can live with that). The other is a Panasonic 32" non-IDTV affair, with a plethora of inputs at the rear, so I've no desire to spend out on new fangled stuff.
 
Recommend Freecycle and eBay to the customer, if it saves them a trip to the tip, and maybe get a few quid in their pockets, I'm sure they'll deal with it... :)
 
Sadly this is going to be an increasing problem - ever since Border South Scotland DSO'd last November its been breaking my heart to see the containers at the local tip filled up with unwanted analogue tv's - many of them whopping great flat screen tv's just three or four years old and well within their design life..

At least when they go in the containers they are going for recycling and will not be filling up the local landfill...
 
2cvbloke said:
Recommend Freecycle and eBay to the customer, if it saves them a trip to the tip, and maybe get a few quid in their pockets, I'm sure they'll deal with it... :)


Freecycle as my post above.
eBay, no chance as they incur costs regardless of the sale and the market is already saturated.

Any other ideas ? I was thinking about hospitals, but the Patientline money-spinner monopoly has killed this route and even the schools round here have already blown their budgets on buying newer sets for the lecture rooms.
 
Yes, give any close hospitals a bell, think they can use a few.

Or any local club ? like Lions ? thewy should know who needs :)
 
Try putting some cards up on the noticeboard at the local supermarket.
 
Here's some other ideas... :)

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it just a sign of the times now as everyone is obsessed with flat screen lcd/plasma, can even say i one of them too got so much space in my setup now but i cant chuck it out as the picture quality is so much better than an lcd screen.
 
wod said:
i cant chuck it out as the picture quality is so much better than an lcd screen.

That's the other reason for not spending funds on keeping up with the Jones'es.
 
We have in Israel a very popular website called yad2 (second hand),
where people can advertise their second hand stuff for free.
_http://www.yad2.co.il
I am sure that there must be something similar in the UK.
 
HB13DISH said:
We have in Israel a very popular website called yad2 (second hand),
where people can advertise their second hand stuff for free.
_http://www.yad2.co.il
I am sure that there must be something similar in the UK.

That is what Freecycle does (one up from the 'Loot' paper, which grew out of the demise of Exchange and Mart)
 
How about ringing the local Social Work dept - or whoever rehouses homeless folks. Some of them provided furniture for folks moving into new accomodation.
 
Channel Hopper said:
the demise of Exchange and Mart
When did this happen?

Why was I not told?
 
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