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I picked up 8 monitors and a friend of my dad's saw the monitors in the truck and he asked what we were doing with them, we told him scrapping them. He said oh I have a monitor in my van you can have. Needless to say I said throw it in the back of the truck. He also told me he get computers all the time to, "I just throw them out I don't know what to do with them." He said anytime he gets monitors/computers he'll put them aside for us....yea buddy!!!
Monitor's are a lot of work for a little copper. You might get a half pound of copper from each monitor and that will build up, but in my example, it will cost $10 to properly dispose of each tube. I picked up 35 of them one spring cleanup, I did get some copper, but not enough to offset $350 disposal fee. Please make sure you take care of the glass.
The township I live in recycles them for free. All I have to do is call them to schedule for Wednesday and they come usually in the morning/early afternoon They also recycle everything else, but a lot of people tell me they'd rather see someone other than the township make more money. A lot of people scrap here and comp. is heavy. It's all about timing here. Our taxes are high enough.
I don't cash in copper that much so it's good for me. I have 4 18gal totes and a huge bucket with rope handles
I bin for each copper grade, aluminum and insulated that's not really strip-able.
some goodwill's take the glass and plastic carcass for free too for recycle.
^^ yes they do here in Australia too, but I recently found out that the three )3) good wills I deal with, and the local dump, ALL send their e-wqste to a company I know of, and they send it ALL over to CHINA to be "recycled"
What a joke.