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