Today I unloaded 437lbs of tvs and monitors(5tvs and 4 monitors) at...
0.12#!!!! What!? Never seen TVs go for more than shred price. 2 floor model TVs could land you 50-60 alone.
Anyone else gettin paid this?
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Today I unloaded 437lbs of tvs and monitors(5tvs and 4 monitors) at...
0.12#!!!! What!? Never seen TVs go for more than shred price. 2 floor model TVs could land you 50-60 alone.
Anyone else gettin paid this?
Whaaaaaaaaaaat...where do you go that friggin BUYS TVs? It's like pulling teeth just to get a yard or dump to take them for free!
My yard refuses tv's , the landfill here disposes of them free of charge . Just my personal situation. If I were you I would ride that train till it stops because I don't know of a single yard that buys them . I would have been rich if my yard did by them . I made a nice contract with a man who clears out old stock from the big screen store . He offered to bring me a box truck a month for free. But to recycle these properly after gutting leaves no room for profit . Sadly I declined the offer after receiving only one load.
Oh I plan on it. The price actually went up. Last weekend it was .10# I guess they found a buyer for the glass? I dunno cause there sure isnt 5-10 bucks worth of copper in a TV.
How much is the lead in cathode ray tubes worth if someone found a way of getting it out?
Would you be willing to tell us the source? Nobody in south Texas will pay for tv's. Thank goodness for Best Buy's recycling program, I unloaded 8 stripped tv's this week.
For that you would simply multiply your weight in lead by the going rate for a lb. of said lead at your local yard .....Quote:
Originally Posted by Evan
I have never researched all that would be involved . I'm not a big fan of sharp glass , but I would imagine doing that safely and legally would cost a lot more than the lead recovered. I may have read somewhere that the recovery rate would be about 8% of said tubes weight . Don't hold me to that for some reason I believe it's less than that . The only lead I own is in my tackle box.
Check the buyers section there is a buyer who purchases CRT's if you have alot of them that is.
Whatever do they do with them?Quote:
Originally Posted by gorven
Love to know who that guy is I'll take all he has as long as they are intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Metalbestos
jord0609 what state u in
Yeah delivered to your door is great but it took me a week just to get through the beasts . The box truck was about 26 ft had a 73 inch beast Mitsubishi and a few sonys that were over 400 pounds a piece . I can't show up at the landfill with a truck load of tubes . They don't recycle the glass they just dispose of them . Plus it is about $120 a load if they think your commercial or if they see you more than 6 times a year. I couldn't find a recycler that would make the time involved profitable considering I'm dealing with thousands of pounds of wood, and paying to dispose of tubes.Quote:
Originally Posted by junkfreak
If you know of a local place to take tubes please let me know ,I just wanted to make sure that they were being recycled and not just disposed of .
If could make only 50 cents off of TVs and tires i could be a qabazillonaire lol. I have to pay to dispose of both of them. Re treaders are so dang picky I just charge to pick up and pay the disposal. My oldest son is only a sophomore and just passed physics. I'm hoping he finds a solution! Maybe turning tubes and tires into a machine that solves global warming. :)
I have a PDF somewhere that talks about the process being done in new York State to remove lead and glass. My understanding is that it is so far a heavily subsidized barley break even deal. It was well beyond my ability to even follow the engineering and chemistry in the article. When I get home I can try and post a link. If they ever get the power back on :)
He's in Canada, and I think that makes a BIG difference...Quote:
Originally Posted by pawpaw
I'm not too far from Canada...maybe I'll just chuck them over Niagara Falls ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrappinRed
Just unloaded 75 tube tv's and monitors as well as 75 printers and I gave the guy $100 to take them. Got paid from pick-ups for half the tv's. Get the stuff out of my way I don't make much money on.
Near Ottawa here, getting .08 cents a pound! They must have their wires intact or else its .04 cents! I used to cut the wires off them. I've got a big pile of TV's at home, my wife decides to help me so she cuts the wires off!
Not her fault, but she cut my profits in half.:mad:
Im in Barrie Ontario. Its just a local yard. They only have two locations so its not even a massive company. They dont care if the wires are cut or not.
They MUST have found a buyer for the glass and plastic. Or sell to a recycling facility who has buyers for em, cause i cant see getting more than 5 bucks in copper even from a large TV.
Hate to break it to ya but we get 0.80 per tire. Just unloaded 260 of em in march and are back up to over 200 tires.Quote:
Originally Posted by beardo
Actually Jord the gov. in pitching in on the recycling giving kickbacks to the recycle companies. Guess we are sort of lucky...Quote:
Originally Posted by jord0690