[colug-432] Fwd: University District E-Waste Recycling Event - August 2nd

[Eric Floehr]

Best Buy accepts old CRT TVs up to 32" for recycling for free. They also
take a number of other consumer electronics.

I recently took an old 19" T V that was refused by Goodwill and Union
Recyclers to Best Buy for free.
 On Jul 16, 2014 9:28 PM, "Shane Zatezalo" <lottadot at gmail.com> wrote:

> There’s a recycle place up on Morris, I think it’s
> http://ohiodropoff.com/what.html that’s $1/diagonal inch (or was a few
> months ago). I’d bet this diagonal as well.
>
>  Shane
>
> On Jul 16, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Angelo McComis <angelo at mccomis.com>
> wrote:
> >> This is why people dispose improperly.  It becomes a question of:
> >>
> >> Why spend $600 when I can find a construction dumpster at dark?
> >
> > I suspect it's a problem for people who don't know how to math properly.
> >
> > I know what the announcement says, but what the charge *probably* is,
> > is $2 per *diagonal* inch.  $30 for A 15" CRT, etc., but since the
> > writer has seen "square inch" in their lives, they used the phrase
> > albeit incorrectly.
> >
> > I could be wrong on this, in which case, $600 is an insane amount to
> demand.
> >
> > When I volunteered at Free Geek a few years back, CRT disposal fees
> > around town ran about $1/diagonal inch or flat rates like $10 and $15
> > (since few large computer CRTs were being dropped off... now, people
> > have a lot of 25" and 37" CRT taking up space).
> >
> > -ethan
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