Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
How come its perfectly fine to landfill all of these monitors but it is illegal for us to process them for recycling? Think of all the electronics with mercury lead ect that get landfilled each year. I think the laws are wrong but thats just my 2 cents.
Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
they must be doing something on a larger scale than what I do. because, whats the difference if I set a monitor out at my trash for pickup fully stripped vs. if I left all the stuff inside of it? Im not busting the glass so there is no law I'm breaking there IMO. folks throw tv's and monitors out all day long everywhere and thats not illegal so they must have been doing something to harm the environment.



I cant access the story to read all the details so I'm going on what I can see - that they were fined for improper disposal?
Where I live, it is illegal for CRTs to be disposed of in a landfill. It's illegal for the trash pickup contractors to even pick them up. It's up to you to check the local laws to see if you are allowed to place them on the curb for trash pickup. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law. Start by visiting the websites for your city, town, and county. That's where I found out about the laws in effect here.