It all depends on the state/local laws if you can or not. I can take my TVs either to the county recycle and pay $10 per tube. Or I can take them with the rest of my trash to the transfer station for $20 a trailer load. Guess where my TV's go. Now - if I could drop off the TVs for free at the county recycle, they would go there along with the cardboard boxes, newspaper, etc. I take there.