tv just died...

[Elspuddy]

yep my tv just died, how do i get rid of it ? i dont think freecycle will take it or will they ?

[petercook7]

yep my tv just died, how do i get rid of it ? i dont think freecycle will take it or will they ?

find a skip dump it there, or phone your council, and prepare to pay 20 ish pounds.

[chris_argyle]

Take it to your nearest electrical retailer. Good old WEEE directive means they have to take it and recycle it. Though you might want to hold on to it if you think you will replace it with a Sony TV of 32" or above, because you would get at least £50 trade in against a sony for it.

[sadbuttrue]

My local council provide 3 free collections of bulky household items per year. Considering the cost of council tax these days, I don't know why it isn't offered by all councils. Yours is charging £35 per collection .

Personally, I'd just leave it outside the front garden for the local Eastern European scrap metal crew. I rarely have to use my council service, as anything with scrap value disappears within 24 hours.

[jim]

Do you, by any chance, own a cannon?

I'll explain where I'm going with this later on.

[Stephen C]

My brothers broke quite a while back, he didn't live in the greatest of areas so we just sealed it up in a box with an address attached and left it outside his flat. Took all of 45 minutes before it vanished.

[petercook7]

My brothers broke quite a while back, he didn't live in the greatest of areas so we just sealed it up in a box with an address attached and left it outside his flat. Took all of 45 minutes before it vanished.

i like that.

[Powderhound]

My brothers broke quite a while back, he didn't live in the greatest of areas so we just sealed it up in a box with an address attached and left it outside his flat. Took all of 45 minutes before it vanished.

Aren't you risking it being returned through your lounge window the next day if you do that?

[dave87]

Take it to your nearest electrical retailer. Good old WEEE directive means they have to take it and recycle it. Though you might want to hold on to it if you think you will replace it with a Sony TV of 32" or above, because you would get at least £50 trade in against a sony for it.

This ^^


Not only does it then get properly recycled, it doesn't annoy the hell out of someone who has hired a skip only to find it filled with other peoples rubbish

[Stephen C]

Aren't you risking it being returned through your lounge window the next day if you do that?

with an address
Had been placed outside a large number of highrise flats and the address was made up.

[AledJ]

yep my tv just died, how do i get rid of it ? i dont think freecycle will take it or will they ?

How about taking it to Tesco? Saw they had some deal on where they took your old tv, and you got money off a new 32 inch tv ( think it was a sony tv you got in return)

[Behemoth]

How about taking it to Tesco? Saw they had some deal on where they took your old tv, and you got money off a new 32 inch tv ( think it was a sony tv you got in return)

All major retailers are doing that deal

[circuitmonkey]

every council that I've come across has had a recycling centre, take it there and it will be recycled free of charge.

[Spud1]

Either trade it in if you want a new TV (not always the best way to save money though, often cheaper online), or if you just want rid then you can take it down to your local tip - they usually have a container where you can give them old monitors, TVs etc and they won't charge you a penny.

Doesn't help if you have no car though - in which case you are best phoning your local council to check what they do. Some of them will collect for a fee, others will do it for free on certain days of the month.

[Flash477]

Are you sure that it is really dead? A lot of TVs have internal fuses which are quite simple to change