Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:28:56 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: TV trash talk, was Re: My report on the inauguration
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 1/26/2009 3:24 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 1/25/2009 6:22 PM >>>
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>[snip]
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>>>> 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;

Here's what is apparently done in Virginia:
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/ecycling/computer.html

mjw