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Originally Posted by kf4rca
Here's a Toshiba 40" on the side of the road. It was totally trashed. Broke my heart.
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It's gotten to be that those (CRT TVs) are truly never seen being thrown away like that where I live, it's always flat TVs, and the trash service won't pick them up just like they wouldn't pick up the CRT TVs back when they were still around. So the flat screens sit at the side of the road till the town issues the property owner where they are a citation to get rid of their junk, and then they have to pay both the citation AND the extra removal fee to get rid of them. And no, taping a piece of white paper to the screen with "FREE" scrawled across it don't get them a free pass either, it usually takes a couple to three weeks for the town to issue the citation and then it's usually gone pretty quick after that.
There are 4 or 5 trash removal services one can contract with in town (the town doesn't itself run it, it's all private contract now) and every one of the trash removal companies specifically state in the contract that TVs, large appliances, and large furniture are not part of the contract, ya gotta pay extra and make a special appointment to have such items removed.....