Originally Posted by
PinkFloydEffect
I have been scrapping electronics lately and the most common drop off items are TVs and monitors, in this switch from tubes to LCD they are very abundant and at the same time very useless to a scrapper.
This is what I get that is profitable:
-Power cord
-Circuit board
-Copper tube winding
This is what I have to dispose of which costs me nothing:
-Plastic shell
-Glass
-LCD
Cracked LCD screens must be worth something somehow!?!?
If there was a way to profit off everything that would be awesome...I heard that plastic used on all tube TVs and monitors is mandatory high temp plastic which can be valuable if I can find a buyer!
The glass I smash up into small pieces I have trash cans full of broken glass I bring to the dump...somebody must buy and melt down glass somewhere??
If anyone has suggestions on profiting from glass and plastic please pitch me your ideas.
Floyd let me fill you in on the haves and the have nots. Realistically, we could make money off tvs and monitors. There are companies set up to take them apart and harvest every inch of them and that is why the recycle plant get .10 to .15/lb for them. The big companies (the haves) only get them from the municipal recycling centers. There are tax breaks involved and other incentives. Us (the have nots) will not get that opportunity because we are not apart of that circle. However, we get ours by scrapping (taking from the haves), they don't like it, so now, there is a charge to dispose of them.
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