Comments on: So What Can We Do With Old TVs Today?

By: Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:20:19 +0000

Cheers for the tips... Just bought a new TV at the boxing day sales... and I did not have the first clue how to give it away.

Freecycle looks great.

By: Dylan Prins

Dylan Prins — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:24:54 +0000

There was a great radio national piece on this just recently: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2010/2843193.htm. They mention resources which can be recovered from old TVs but generally don’t cover the shipping it off to the third world factors.

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:05:39 +0000

@Martyn: Sounds cool! I just Googled them up and found these old photos. Although, to be fair, with the amount of TVs we’re going to be faced with we’ll need every band in the world to start wearing TV helmets .

By: Martyn Cox

Martyn Cox — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:54:44 +0000

I once saw a band called Man or Astroman? Their lead singer used to run around with an old TV set on his head. Maybe he’s in need of replacing his old one?

By: Darren (Green Change)

Darren (Green Change) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:52:58 +0000

Last weekend, I drove past an advertising sign in Albion Park that had two TVs dumped behind it. Three hours later on my way home, there were 5 or 6 TVs there! So people are dumping, and they're brazen enough to do it in broad daylight.

I think this is a problem that's only going to grow in coming months.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:06:47 +0000

@Jason: That would be a good thing to include in a Council public education program. The Illawarra Freecycle seems to be fairly active – although I’m not sure what would happen if a hundred people put old TVs on there in the one week!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:34:06 +0000

First, try and reuse the functioning usable materials by offering them for free. Freecycle is often a great avenue for this.