TV Recycling For The DTV Switchover
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What's going to happen to all those old analog TVs which will become obsolete when the nation switches over to digital? The environmental activists campaigning outside the Consumer Electronics Show in LA last week had one answer: analog TVs will end up toxic zombie space-suckers in our landfills. (After everyone tries to give theirs away on Craigslist, that is.) Some good news about this is that a couple of major TV manufacturers have instituted programs to recycle old sets. Sony, Samsung, and LG already have recycling programs; Texas Campaign for the Environment reports that three other companies, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Sharp, have announced that they, too, will start programs. That leaves the TV Companies of Shame, Mitsubishi, Philips, JVC, and Hitachi, who have, so far, turned a blind eye to this big problem.
But it also leaves us, as consumers, responsible for checking up on the programs that the companies institute - we don't want all those "recycled" TVs to end up in Chinese landfills.
*Photo by Beige Alert on Flickr
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