Dumping/recycling old tv sets

[Telecolor 3007]

I do like some '90's tv sets, but from the early '90's, when plastic was still pretty good (and the sets too). Yeah, late '90's sets are usally crap - with some exceptions, of course.
Why charities won't take them?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

I do like some '90's tv sets, but from the early '90's, when plastic was still pretty good (and the sets too). Yeah, late '90's sets are usally crap - with some exceptions, of course.
Why charities won't take them?

Some thrift shops were being overrun since it was cheaper to donate than E-waste. There were times where the Goodwill stores had 20-50 CRT sets on the shelves for $0.49 a piece...You could setup a wall of TVs cheaper than a fast food lunch. They did not sell, and cost charities money to E-waste, and the bigger ones were giving thrift employees hernias from lifting the weight. Goodwill and some other charities stopped accepting CRT TVs.

[Telecolor 3007]

Seems not even the poor want C.R.T. tv sets. What a world...

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Seems not even the poor want C.R.T. tv sets. What a world...

Here in the USA we are or were in the CRT era mostly middle and upper class, and most middle and upper class homes especially in the midwest have at least 3 TVs...usually more. When that many sets are dumped even if all the poor wanted another CRT set there would still be too many in circulation for the poor to be able to take all of them.

There are some poor that don't want old electronics...That is a common thing among the poor every damn thing the own could be old and beat up but they will have the newest most expensive TV/smart phone/computer to keep them entertained while the stay home all day and collect wellfare.

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by electronic m

they will have the newest most expensive tv/smart phone/computer to keep them entertained while the stay home all day and collect wellfare.

lolololol

[Telecolor 3007]

Happenes everywhere. But sometimes is society pressure.... how can you use that old stuff.
I'm not poor, not middle class, but for me a C.R.T. tv is a test tv for people. How? For eg. if a she comes into my home and says "crap, you're still using a C.R.T. tv + another comets", it's a preson that not deserves any intrest. If she dosen't makes any coment, that maybe she's a fine she, and if it does like my other electronics then she's a fine she.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Happenes everywhere. But sometimes is society pressure.... how can you use that old stuff.
I'm not poor, not middle class, but for me a C.R.T. tv is a test tv for people. How? For eg. if a she comes into my home and says "crap, you're still using a C.R.T. tv + another comets", it's a preson that not deserves any intrest. If she dosen't makes any coment, that maybe she's a fine she, and if it does like my other electronics then she's a fine she.

I don't care about society's opinion about that. I never was one to cave to peer pressure. This leaves me a lot of alone time, without the company of those who would do/have done me more harm than good... wait, what's the down side there?

You have a good way of filtering out the undesirables. It's better to be alone than with someone who's constantly telling you what to do.