[Noisebridge-discuss] CRT donations to noisebridge

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> While the garbage company won't accept CRTs (or lead-acid batteries, or
> technically any lead at all) they are the bread-and-butter of e-waste
> collectors.
>
> Thats right, if you want the e-waste guy to come to noisebridge and take
> all the other crap we've accumulated (and recycle it) you have to put some
> CRTs in there to pay for his blow.  bubba.  ya-ya.
>
> More importantly, there are a lot of really cool things that have CRTs in
> them that people should not hesitate to donate - even an ancient
> vacuum-tube television (which ironically might not have a lead-shielded
> screen) would be cool, we could immediately rearrange its insides into a
> shortwave transmitter.
>
> anyway, two things to remember:  e-waste collectors love CRTs and we love
> some things with CRTs in them.

Personally, I'd rather not accumulate mostly-useless CRTs (in favor of
LCDs), recyclers do like these (in a sense).
I believe that California pays for them to be handled by these
e-recycling groups since they're so toxic inside.