Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:24:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: TV trash talk, was Re: My report on the inauguration
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 1/25/2009 6:22 PM >>>

[snip]

>>> since 1993.
>>
>>I think I've watched mine more recently than that, but not within the
>>past year or two.  So I haven't bothered to get a converter box, and
>>when analog TV is shut down next month I'll probably toss the TV in
>>the dumpster.
>
>Virginia doesn't have recycling for computers, tvs, and the like?
>Computers etc all have metals that really shouldn't go into a landfill.>>
>
>And it's sort of silly to trash a working - but for converter box - tv.
>Perhaps a neighbor might find it of use.

The recycling dump in Prince George's County doesn't take tvs;
they aren't considered toxic waste and aren't in the limited category
of plastic/glass/metal either.  They go in the regular trash, but
the ones I've seen put out for the trash tend to sit on the side of the
road for a long time before they disappear.  It's possible they are
considered "bulky trash", but I don't know.  The default "recycling"
for anything electronic here is the thrift shop, which doesn't check
for whether something works. (caveat emptor)

Since it's working, it would be quite reasonable to find some way
to haul it to a thrift shop and get a tax deduction slip for it.  Or
to give it to someone who would do that, once you explain that
it's very easy to do and doesn't require identification or anything.
They don't say how much it was worth; you get to do that.

=Tamar