[Noisebridge-discuss] CRT disposal is free in the state of California

[Alex Perez]

A couple of years ago, under State Bill 50 (see http://store.earthlcd.com/POLICIES-California-Recycling-Fee 
  ) the State of California switched from a recycler-paid model to a  
consumer-paid model for CRT and LCD recycling. Once again, I want to  
explicitly clear up the reality that it costs $0 to recycle a CRT of  
any sort (TV, etc) in the state of california. All in-state buyers now  
pay a small fee up-front at purchase time, which finances those of us  
who bring LCDs and CRTs in to be recycled.

Furthermore, LCDs are not more environmentally friendly than CRTs.  
Plenty of very intelligent and progressive folks seem to operate under  
this severely mistaken assumption, and the vast majority of LCDs to  
date do contain mercury, the bioaccumulation of which is a serious  
potential problem.


On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:39 PM, jim wrote:

>
> ACCRC takes CRTs gladly, at least they did
> a couple of months ago.
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:09 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:47AM -0700, grey wrote:
>>> So we've talked about not having CRT's donated, which I think is a
>>> great idea.  But I've also been seeing a bunch of 10/100 hubs  
>>> showing
>>> up.  I don't know about the rest of you guys, but these things were
>>> seriously out of date a decade ago, so unless someone is planning to
>>> strip the tiny linklight LED's off them for projects I'd kind of
>>> rather not see anything network gear like this showing up.
>>
>> The strong distinction with CRTs is, it *costs* money to dispose of
>> them.  No matter how many 10baseT hubs we accumulate, we can drop  
>> them
>> off at ACCRC / Green Citizen for free.  Whereas, CRTs are $5 or  
>> more per
>> tube to dispose of properly.
>>
>> The great thing about cheapo network hardware is that it draws very
>> little current.  I'm uber pleased we got that managed Cisco 100baseT
>> switch, but it draws 32W of the 70W total for the networking closet
>> (Soekris + 100baseT switch + WRT54G + Ruckus + Fonera VoIP = 40W).
>>
>> -andy
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