What to do with old flatscreen monitors?

[zer0netgain]

We got these monitors back in 2006.  Can't say they had "non-stop" use, but used every workday, and while powered down via energy saving features, they were never turned "off" or unplugged.

About a year or so ago, both had their on board sound crap out.  Got some speakers for my desk.  A few months back, a bit of "flicker" started to appear.  Not a loss of light, but a seeming interference with signal.  This week, both basically would show a crappy image for a second or to then go back into standby mode.

New ones are in place, but is there any salvage value to the old ones?  Best way to dispose of them?  I honestly expected the back lights to burn out first, but it seems the electronics (chips) went buggers instead.

[Bounce]

Best Buy and other places will take them in for recycling so they don't end up in the land fill.

[Cablebandit]

Take them apart.  Remove the Fresnel lens and use them to pop popcorn using solar energy.

[ConPilot1]

Cannon fodder??

[Kneescrubber]

Best Buy and other places will take them in for recycling so they don't end up in the land fill.

This. Please recycle.

[Cablebandit]

Will they pay me to recycle?  I know they'll be selling what I give them.

[Mr.Black]

http://www.pcrecycler.net/

[Kneescrubber]

Will they pay me to recycle?  I know they'll be selling what I give them.

Have it your way. I seriously doubt Best Buy or any others actually profit from their program. I think they do it because it's the right thing to do. But sure, go ahead and throw stuff in the trash without a thought of where it ends up. That's your prerogative.

[Cablebandit]

Actually they do turn a profit on it.

[Kneescrubber]

Actually they do turn a profit on it.

Good for them. That's what capitalism is all about.  

[Cablebandit]

Yup, and I'm free to continue to not support them.  What a great country.  

[veefer800canuck]

My local municipality has a recycling program.

Bring the electronics to the waste transfer station, and they have a SeaCan that they put all the used/non-working electronics in for recycling.

Call your town or city hall and ask. They'll know.  

[zer0netgain]

Call your town or city hall and ask. They'll know.  

I figured we'd be holding onto these until the next "free day" for dumping them for recycling.  I was just wondering if there was anything worth salvaging from them (other than keeping the cables and power cords).

[birdrunner]

My local municipality has a recycling program.

Bring the electronics to the waste transfer station, and they have a SeaCan that they put all the used/non-working electronics in for recycling.

Call your town or city hall and ask. They'll know.  

There's a lot of weird and nasty chemicals and minerals in most electronics,  mercury being a common one.

[CLAY]

At night, dig a pit in your neighbors backyard right next to the one where you dump your used motor oil.  Dump them in.  Bury.  Done.  

[Mr.Black]

At night, dig a pit in your neighbors backyard right next to the one where you dump your used motor oil dead hookers.  Dump them in.  Bury.  Done.  

[rgbeard]

Targets for shooting?

[Bounce]

Targets for shooting?

naw.. that's printers and fax machines.... but only when you don't have to go to work on Saturday... and Sunday too.

[coho]

[county]

A guy in Memphis had a bunch of them placed in his front yard, some on the ground and some in trees, looking out at passing traffic....