[BBLISA] Where to dispose of CRTs

[Bob Webber]

Assuming that you don't feel like breaking the law or ripping off the taxpayers of neighboring towns, you could consider a nice day trip up to the south side Manchester NH (Mall of New Hampshire) on 27 July to drop off your CRTs at the Small Dog Electronics eWaste recycling event.

The next date for the Manchester NH event isn't yet listed at <http://www.smalldog.com/green/our-mission-planet>, but 27 July 2013 was listed in one of their newsletters a while back.

I drove up to the event last year and dropped off a a couple of CRTs and boxes and boxes of old electronics -- entertainment items, 100 MB SCSI disks, 3C509 Ethernet cards, some broken laptops... probably a couple of hundred pounds in total. No charge, no hassle, they unloaded the car in a couple of minutes without me doing anything but opening the tailgate.

Disposing of your CRT by the normal mechanism in place in your town won't exactly break the bank either: in Medford a disposal sticker costs $25 for curbside pickup. In Arlington it's $10 if you carry the CRT into the disposal station, $20 each if you pick one of the scheduled curbside pickup days, $40 for a custom pickup time.

Cambridge notes "producer take back" programs ($10 to walk it in at BestBuy), and the city picks up small units for free, larger for $25. Winchester wants $5 to $25, Lexington is free curbside with an appointment, Melrose wants $7 if you bring it in.  A Google search on
<Town Name> MA crt disposal
seems to usually turn up the right information.


On Jun 29, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Jon Young <jon at network-plumbers.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all that responded.  I decided to take the stash to Staples since
> their website indicates they take UPS batteries.  After a gentle nudge from
> the manager, the electronics person unhappily accepted my shopping cart
> full of batteries (amazed at the load it could hold).
> 
> Thanks again.  I've never tried to dispose of a bunch of these personally,
> only as part of a larger electronics disposal at $work.
> 
> Now to find someone who will the old CRT monitor in the basement without
> charging me much.  Hopefully that will go on freecycle.
> Jon
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) <
> bblisa4 at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> 
>>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Jon Young
>>> 
>> 
>> I like other peoples' suggestions to dispose for free, or even get paid
>> for your disposal.  If you can, that suggestion is better than mine.  ;-)
>> 
>> Failing the above, my suggestion is to simply punch "battery" or
>> "batteries" into google maps.  There are tons of battery stores out there,
>> probably at least one within 3 miles of any urban location.  I just call
>> them, ask if they take batteries, they say yes, I drop them off an pay a
>> little bit of money.  Sometimes they are automotive locations, sometimes
>> they are simply battery stores.  Such as Batteries Plus+.  For example
>> (near my home.)
>> 
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