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Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it.
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Legitimately, i was floored when I learned how much bestbuy charges for recycling electronics (smart tv, specifically). Like motherfucker the precious metals in the components alone should be enough for you why are you charging me a benjamin on top of that??
I figured out how to recycle it through my city, instead. Massive pain in the ass to do, but at least they didn't CHARGE ME
TVs seem especially hard to recycle.
Not really.
You just smash'm up to get the PCBs out of them, ship'm across the world to a 3rd world country, where you pay children to douse them in chemicals and light them on fire, then dig through the toxic much to fish out the metal nuggets to send out for processing.
E-Z-P-Z.
There's a local recycling company near me, and anything like that (including monitors) has a $25 surcharge to take it, but they take everything else free of charge. It was great when I did hardware support, because we could just huck most customers' old gear at them and it got properly handled.