News Story on TV Recycling

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by andy

The recycling places I've talked to don't care about the stuff beyond its scrap metal value. Most people don't even seem to be able to tell the difference between a roundie and an 80's set with knobs.

The ignorance makes me angry, sad world we live in these days.....

[vintagecollect]

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Originally Posted by zenithfan1

The ignorance makes me angry, sad world we live in these days.....

Seems like ignorance is very fashionable these days.

That's the impression I get from most people I know.

Seems that most people don't want to hear what somebody else is saying unless it is what they want to hear.

[yagosaga]

Hi Folks.

I have an agreement with the local electronic recycler. I have teached the people there how to identify a tube tv set and pleased them to telephone me when they have get one. Most of the tv sets they get are b/w mass production from the 1960s and 1970s. No interesting stuff. And if they have sometimes anything interesting, it is already molested. So, the effort to come and go does not yield a valuable result. Meanwhile I have cancelled the agreement. Too much work for nothing valuable.

On the other hand, newspaper reports result every time in getting a valuable set.

- Eckhard

Originally Posted by yagosaga

Hi Folks.

I have an agreement with the local electronic recycler. I have teached the people there how to identify a tube tv set and pleased them to telephone me when they have get one. Most of the tv sets they get are b/w mass production from the 1960s and 1970s. No interesting stuff. And if they have sometimes anything interesting, it is already molested. So, the effort to come and go does not yield a valuable result. Meanwhile I have cancelled the agreement. Too much work for nothing valuable.

On the other hand, newspaper reports result every time in getting a valuable set.

- Eckhard

Sounds like the workers in your country are much more intelligent and respectful than those I have tried to speak to here in south Florida. I was as careful as possible with my words and I do demonstrate a completely respectful way of communicating to them but it's always the same reponses of either pretending to care or more often, a show of apparently thinking there is no money in it for them.
So, I wonder if those that help you do so because they expect you will pay them well or are they simply caring and respectful people?