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    Question Doing Monitors and TV'S BIG?

    Ok so I am new here. I DO NOT speak from experience.



    As for monitors and TV's. It seems to be a universal problem around the e-waste communities dealing with monitors and TV's in a responsible manner.
    We all know for a fact that there are companies that deal with the tubes and the plastics in monitors and TV's.
    From what I can tell in my own area is that it is a matter of getting them to the people that deal with theses things.
    It would seem to me if it is volume these companies are looking for I should be able to help them with that.
    I have access to space to store up a huge amount of monitors and TV's.
    They have spent a lot of money on the equipment to handle these things. I am not ready to buy that equipment yet.
    But, it does stand to reason to me that if I were to approach them as a volume resource in my area that they would rather keep their own machinery going than to let such expensive equipment sit idle.
    As time moves forward there will be less and less of these to deal with. I have amassed a lot in a few short weeks. I do know that at some point whether it is 10,000 or 100,000 the available supply will dry up or at least slow down.
    I guess that I am saying that if I need more of these to make myself attractive to the bigger buyers then that is what I need to do. I am not looking to get rich off of TV's or monitors, but simply by taking them it makes my business of e-scrap more attractive to my own customers.
    If I need to forgo the goodies in them to process them in a responsible manner then I will just have to make my money in the other areas of my business. I am going to be doing extensive research and get in contact with the glass and plastic recycling businesses in my own and surrounding states.
    I come from a logistics back-ground so dealing with moving them in volume is not intimidating to me.
    In closing I would say that I think I need to look into being the solution and not a part of the problem.
    I will keep people posted as I learn more in contacting down-stream vendors.
    I am going to attempt to make TV's and monitors a break-even point in my e-scrap business. I have been told that they are what will break a e-scrap business, but maybe they were just looking at is through a small window.
    I would thank you for your feedback.

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