Time to get rid of that old TV!

There’s a group that’s building awareness to TVs polluting the world with an online graveyard called JUNKED TV at http://www.junkedtv.com

Lonely TV’s are now a permanent fixture on our sidewalks – it’s an odd phenomena when you take the time to notice it – If you see a junked tv on the side of the road take a pic and email it to them to add it to the campaign.

How do you think the ACT Guvment is going to acheive their “No waste by….(what was the date?)” scheme??? By not allowing waste into the Tip of course!

But wait, i have engraved my ACT drivers license number on the back of the telly. means I better be careful when I dump it to the entrance of Bruce.

“The company mentioned at the end of the media release, Renewable Processes, is a local Canberra company who’ve just started out and are all about recycling e-waste. There’s a cost involved with them too.”

I think it was win news that showed one of the Greenies complaining that the company doing it was an international company (and why couldn’t a local company do it)…?

Well the private dwellings around my area dump monitors etc at our govie bin area, I gave my old monitor to a neighbour.

Yet another way for Jon (Just shoot the messenger) Stanhope to be able to afford Grasby statues.

Yes it costs you money to do the right thing and dispose of these things responsibly, but there’s a cost involved in recycling electronic equipment such as computers, TVs and monitors, and I imagine you’ve gotta go through a pretty high number of machines before you start to pull a profit from the precious metals etc you’ve extracted.

The company mentioned at the end of the media release, Renewable Processes, is a local Canberra company who’ve just started out and are all about recycling e-waste. There’s a cost involved with them too.

If you want to do the right thing but don’t want to pay money to the bloody ‘guvnmt’, go give your business to Renewable and help support a local business. It’d be pretty bloody poor form of the ‘guvnmt’, probably contractually obliged with the current recycling tenderer, if they didn’t charge for this service given there’s a local small business trying to do the same thing.

From the press release:
“Mr Stanhope said the user-pays scheme would continue until the National E-waste Scheme was introduced in the ACT next year, which would provide for free e-waste recycling.”

So this is an interim measure until a free recycling service is introduced next year. Any fool could tell Stanhope that the imposition of a fee will simply result in increased dumping of E-waste.

So, what is the point of this? It won’t help the environment. Is it all for the sake of a press release?

I feel that seeing as the Federal Government is turning off the Analogue TV signal and is now encouraging people to go ditigal all old CRT style TVs should be free to dump. This should then discourage people dumping illegally. People wishing to dump plasma or lcd tvs should still be charged.

Throw them from your car while driving at 130km/h on thr parkway.