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He is making a point that if you make it costly and difficult to do the better thing, people will do the easier thing.
Yep
yeah, but it doesn't have to be this hard. Easier ideas: 1) Chainsaw 2) Any big dumpster behind a store or commercial place 3) A ditch on a rural road at night That's what they get for charging stupid fees to dispose stuff - always a cheaper option
This wasn't easier! It's cheaper!
@@gorak9000 you ever used a chainsaw? That'd be a nightmare to cut with a chainsaw, and it would destroy the chain.
@@Mike-bs5pi i watched texas chainsaw m i know they can cut anything don't lie to me
I think this would have been much easier using a screwdriver!
What do you think about fire?
That's what I did. I take out the magnets & I give the screen to my art buddy's, then throw the plastic in the recycling bin . Done 👍
What about the giant polarizing filter... waste
@@NickToland . yeah forgot the KZhead comment section is ripe with nitpicking. I use everything I can.
@@h.p.lovecraft5406 what about the PCB?
My friend's boss ran a computer business (back in the CRT monitor days) and would neatly fold all of the monitor boxes and save them. He would pack all of the broken monitors into the box and sealed it up as if they were new and left it outside his office like it was just delivered. The area was a bad area so those monitors were quickly gone in a day or two.
Now that is some enterprising thinking. Why pay for commercial waste disposal when the thieves will happily take it off your hands for free.
that's just "throwing them in a ditch" with extra steps. What are the thieves going to do after they figure out it's busted
@@marcogenovesi8570 Indeed, easy for him, still bad for the environment.
That's classic recycling
@@marcogenovesi8570 or someone will get scammed into paying actually money for them.
I’ve been disassembling TVs for a few years now. With a power screwdriver, it can be broken down into major parts in about 10-15 minutes ( probably closer to 30 with just a hand screwdriver, but still doable ). The major parts can then be cut as needed, plastic can be easily disposed of in any trash bin that it will fit, the backing plate is going to be steel or aluminum and can be scrapped. The electronics board can be disposed of at any place that scraps computers. The Frenell lens can be used to make a solar concentrator. Those little glass tubes likely had mercury in them as a UV source…I suspect that is where much of the cost of disposal is.
note LCD screens don't have lenses. That's only a specific type of screen that has them, which is disappointing because they are cool. On the other hand some people have made their own lenses especially from 3D-printed resin
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Yes, not all TV's have a Frenell lens, but a number still do, as LCD still is not universal, and most of the TVs that can be scrapped are older models that might have one.
@@gregharbican7189 It's spelled "Fresnel", invented by a Frenchman. The original idea was used on lighthouses, if you look at the windows the light shines through, they're Fresnel lenses, looking like segments of a normal lens cut-up. If they used traditional lenses instead, they'd have been too gigantic to make and use, so Fresnel's lenses made modern powerful lighthouses possible. Anyway... the old projection TVs used them, where a smaller screen shines through a lens onto a back-projection screen. But those were the huuuuge TVs (at least by back-then standards). Normal CRT TVs don't have fresnel lenses, and LCD and OLED TVs don't have a use for them. You're only going to find one TV in 10,000 that has one, and that's if you live near millionaires. The little tubes _might_ have been to spread light from a fluorescent tube, which would use a teeny bit of mercury, yes. Or if they're modern enough they'd use white LEDs. I dunno about our guy saying his TV was "decades" old, how long have big LCD TVs been affordable anyway? But yep if there's a fluorescent light source in them you should dispose of them properly, the same thing with the compact-fluorescent light bulbs that have been replaced by LED bulbs. Cos they last so long there's still a lot of compact fluorescent bulbs around. They contain mercury but your local dump should have a procedure. It's probably to charge you 50x what you paid for the bulb, then ship it off in a special plastic bag to somewhere that'll just landfill it anyway.
Alternatively, you could plant the TV in the ground, and harvest the fresh LCD tubes in the fall. Nature is so beautiful.
Use any baby screens that grow for mobile phone repairs?
roflol
LCD tubes. you crack me up.
alternatively, you can just let the front door of your house unlocked at night. Next morning, TV is gone. Works in my country at least.
They're really good with cocroaches and soy.
I used to live outside 2 cities and everyone charged to get rid of TV's, especially CRT TV's. It was SO common to see TV's thrown out on the side of the road and smashed, thrown in parking lot corners, behind businesses, etc... If they really care about e waste recycling it has to be free.
It's free where I am. Sounds great, until they told me to just dump it with all the other garbage at the transfer station. IE. they don't recycle it or do something with the hazardous material, they just bury it in the local landfill with everything else. LOL I was a bit surprised but, hey, it didn't cost me $70!
As we all know, there is no such thing as “free”. As one other commenter mentioned, many European countries include a recycle fee in every electronic device sold. Therefore there's a built-in market to repair, reclaim, reprocess or dispose of properly.
As far as I know, it's free in Southern Illinois! They have a big facility over in Carbondale Illinois.
@@HarvardBob That sounds like a great idea. If you attached it to every device sold it could be a reasonably low fee and we could ensure there are actually places to take this stuff.
where I live I have to pay (not sure how much, I think it was $60 years ago) - Where my kiddo went to college they had a dumpster and EVERYTHING went into that baby - so one time when picking her up I made the 4 hour drive worth while, took the old TV along and dumpstered it.
This is why I'm glad there's free electronics recycling where I live.
Same. They even come and pick up TVs, monitors, fridges, etc. for free here. What's being done in this video is totally weird from my perspective. 🤯
We pay a little amount extra when buying electronics for when it needs to be recycled later. So "free" is not really free here.
Nothing is for free, you are pying for that service in the price of the goods
@@eXe09 Yeah, I know, but it's better than paying to throw it into a landfill.
@@eXe09 Yes but not $70 per TV.
LCD monitors are a source of interesting parts. Backlights are essentially low profile light integrating and releasing assemblies. They are a useful source of optical sheet materials for photography for example.
Feels like a April fools video 2 days late! I disassembled my TV in 10 minutes reusing the fresnel lens, leds and some electronics.
This....
Fresnel lenses are only found in rear projection tvs. This isn't a rear projection tv
and you still couldn't dispose of the rest of the crap and you still have it sitting in your basement.
@@beyamoth Probably technically true as it is not easy to find information what it actually is and it looks most likely a BEF (Brightness Enhancement Film) that do about the same as a Fresnel lens, eg make the rays parallel. So instead of being technically correct I used the word more people would know about.
Fresnel lens? ROFL, this is 2022 not 1982.
Did not expect that. I thought you would take it apart, and save useful parts
Sad but I think the legend has lost it!!!!!
@@andyb6120 Well than sad for you really.
@@daveal3d then*
@@DarthVader1977 then,*
@@daveal3d thine o.O
Honestly, I would really like to see you show your viewers how to safety tear down a flat-screen to extract the electronic components for recycling. I've done it half a dozen times and it's actually pretty easy, and some of the backlight and diffusion layers are really useful for lighting.
but not as fun :D
The best were the projection TVs. They contained a giant Fresnel lens.
@@michaelyoutube5149 Yes those are gold and now getting harder to find in good shape. I loved making solar ovens out of them.
You should make the video! Would be an interesting watch
That TV used CCFL backlights which aren't as easy or attractive to use for lighting.
Well, that was uncharacteristically lame. About a month ago, I too had a dead big-screen, and I disposed of it by removing all the screws (and saved them), extracting some wiring harnesses and connectors I can sort and place in my carefully-organized "junque box," salvaged also useful connectors and a few surface-mount components, removed and had immediate need for the sheets of diffusing plastic, the fresnel sheet, and the LCD layer which I used as a plastic cover for a work table. I cut some large flat panels from the formed sheet-metal back for my stock of materials, and I tossed the remaining styrene bezel and base in the dumpster after cutting some flat panels from it. Less than half the weight and less than a quarter of the bulk went into the dumpster. BTW, those glass tubes you mentioned are actually mercury-bearing florescent tubes that were once used for backlighting the LCD. I did *not* put those in the dumpster. Instead, I staged them--intact--with other florescent tubes and CFLs I will take to HAZMAT disposal (I don't know where you live, but here that's free). All that took me less than an hour and i was rewarded with a number of useful items and materials. Everyone acts like a fool from time to time, including me. I guess it was your turn.
Though I get the point of this vid, I would like to add you should always take apart screens like that for components: Back lights, diffusion screens, lenses, IR sensors, polarizing films... All it really costs is a little time and can gives you a bunch of goodies for other projects.
Presume he was pissed while making this .He came across as a fool
Was about to say this, he has proven himself an idiot, especially from a channel called "Tech Ingredients", I was shaking my head right through this video.
The base of the TV alone probably sells for $30 on eBay.
@@DarthVader1977 Seriously?
@@AtimatikArmy Lots of people hung the TVs on their walls and threw away the base. Then when they upgrade their TV, they will give the old one away or sell it. If the person buying it is in an apartment they most likely can't hang the TV on the walls so they would need the base.
Usually I feel like I learned something from this channel. Not today, unfortunately. :(
Well, I learned that there are dark parts of the world where they charge you for doing the only right thing.
Then you missed the point of the video....
@@JourneysADRIFT I understand the point being that people will take the cheap and easy way. I didn't need this demo to learn that.
@@TheMitchyevans Well, before that I thought only stupid and/or poor people do that. But apparently there are other factors involved.
Here in Brazil everything is so expensive that these broken TVs are sold as "used with defect".
I hope you learn to fix them and make some profit!
Actually you should have made it into an "artificial skylight". Behind the image screen is a really efficient sheet/screen to spread the light. You can either drive the original LEDs or add strip LEDs to make a great light panel. You could even go RGBW LEDs and get any tunable color lighting that you want.
Looks like it had fluorescent tubes behind the diffuser.
*DIYPerks has entered the chat*
@@bstrickler They were very thin to be fluorescent tubes, looked more like they were light pipes, possibly spreading light from a fluorescent source, or maybe they had LEDs on. Early LCD screens, including on laptops, had fluorescent tubes lighting them though. One reason laptop screens are so flat now, wasn't possible before cheap white LEDs.
Over here (the Netherlands, perhaps more parts of the EU too) we pay the disposal fee when purchasing any electrical device. Protects the country against dumping, and protects your lungs from silicosis by taking a saw to a silicon based screen.
Same in Switzerland.
Same in Belgium. Also, retailers need to take back the old thing when they deliver you the new thing.
Same for Sweden
@TILEN FABE that wasn't nice 🙂
same in France
When they said "The fee is $70", they were really saying "We want you to leave it on the side of the road or dump it into a river to make as much pollution as possible".
I've found computers in both of those locations... both computers worked surprisingly well.
@@ArdgalAlkeides To be fair leaving it on the side of the road is often the safest disposal. You would be surprised how many crackheads would take literally anything. I'll never forget the time our oven died when I was younger, so we had to replace it. First we pulled the old one out, and dragged it to the alley way so we could pick it up in the truck later to take to the dump or wherever. Then we went to home depot to pickup the new oven we had already ordered. And in the 30 minutes it took us to go to home depot and back, the entire ass oven was gone. Some crackheads took it.
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@@PTMG They just dump it again if it doesn't work though. It's just landfill or ditch dumping with extra steps
"Little glass tubes, Nasty". Yup! mercury vapor florecent tubes.
A lot of LCD TV's can be repaired inexpensively by replacing a couple of capacitors in the power supply section. I would also recommend wearing a respirator when cutting up electronics due to the potential for creating noxious dust like silica. Lastly, many electronics stores like Best Buy will recycle these item for you at no charge. Some townships also may have a day each month for recycling electronics.
The capacitor plague was a limited thing. For a time that was all true, but if you get a new TV now then electrolytic capacitors aren't the go-to solution any more.
@@IOUaUsername Yeah, now you have to replace LED backlight arrays, and they are $80-$100, plus installation.
@@Reach3DPrinters I don't know where you're looking but it's the wrong place. I was given an LG 43UJ630V 4K 43" TV, and the backlight strips were £35, and I fitted them myself. Precarious, but not hard.
@@unlokia Agreed. LEDs are dirt cheap and standardized. It's among the most inexpensive parts to replace.
I replaced the CFT in my TV with LEDs. $20 for the led kit vs $220 for the CFT backlight.
Showing exactly what people do. We find these in the woods, hucked off the side of the road.
My municipality accepts e-waste for free. Avoids people doing things like this to avoid the expense. What a shame. Not the best outcome for the environment.
California. Home of MTBE
your computer isnt good for the enviroment either or the child labor that was used to mine the elements.
Sorry to break this to you, but ever since China stopped accepting recycling from the US, pretty much everything goes into the dump. You still have the *appearance* of recycling, with the blue bins, different day recycling collection, etc; but it eventually goes to the same dump as trash. The US doesn't have the infrastructure to recycle.
That's why I just throw stuff like this in the creek.
@@bobguy6542 I think there's a program for "biodegradable" trash to be cubed and dumped in the ocean. I know other countries in SE Asia do this, but they just bundle up plastics too... I vaguely remember seeing something about it here in the US around 15 years ago or so.
I know this is more of a satire, but hear me out. LED's (or even cathode tubes) in TV's rarely die. Usually other electronics give up. Turn old TV into a diffused light panel, I have a 32" and a 40" in my shed, currently working on making a frame, so I can turn old faulty TV's, into picture frames, with backlight.
Way to go :)
Odd that my experience with fixing many led tvs is that the leds go out and not other electronics. Its very rare for a board to be no good vs the back light. At least with led. With cheap monitors especially ccfl back light monitors I have had to replace capacitors before and that was all that was wrong with them.
@@polygaryd Yes, I keep seeing caps mentioned as the most frequent failure.
I use them for light's above my workbench in the shed. They're fricken bright driven at max current and because there's so many LED's they don't case shadows.
I love stuff like this. If the locality was serious about being clean, they wouldn’t burden the citizens with such ridiculous costs. May as well hang a big sign that says “we don’t want your TV - chuck it in on the side of the road somewhere”. If they paid folks $5 to take their TVs to the dump, everyone would snatch them out of the roadside ditches and turn them in. Just sayin’.
If they payed $5 to do that, criminals would be stealing TV's to "recycle". Probably just make it free.
@@tardonator criminals would not be moved by a $5 incentive for stealing a TV! Come on! use your head!
That's really the point here, don't quibble about price.
@@narnbrez - oh yes they might. If my dad's house in upstate NY was stripped of copper piping, i wouldn't put it past them to steal a TV for $5. This was a year ago, so prices may have changed. But it cost me $80 in replacement parts from HD to fix 50% of the stolen pipes (not counting the high brass content water meter - i can't believe they stole the water meter). Why only 50%, because it was an old house and some of the stolen lines were Dunsel parts. The point is, the local recycler is not going to pay 100% of the purchase price of new pipe for the recycled stuff. So, how much recyclable copper did they steal ? They broke in to the house carrying a bolt cutter, cut the CTV line which knocked out my internet monitoring system (so they were not stupid), and used the bolt cutter to remove my copper pipes, and they probably got $20-$30 for the pipes at the local recycler. If a TV is worth $20, they would definitely steal it. If it's only worth $5 - I don't know, maybe. But, i would definitely not make the TV worth more than $5.
@@TechIngredients Electronics shops & repair technicians buy bad/old TVs for spare parts in India. Charging the customer disposal fee is absurd.
a screwdriver would've been more efficient, you can take them down to bits with 20 screws removed, then you dont have all that dust and crap. plus you can salvage stuff for other projects. You basically just have to remove the motherboard and leds, the rest is regular consumer waste and scrap metal
This one even had neon filled glas tubes for the backlight. - Not the modern LED strips, bonus mercury vapours with the glass. The rest of your statement is spot on, you are right, beside on some modern TVs they use those consumer unfriendly security skrewdriver bits, everybody can buy, but not everybody owns. But skrewdrivers are the better cheaper tool.
Thanks Captain Obvious
The entire point isn't to show you how to do it big brain.
This seems completely reasonable, safer for the individual and the environment, and honestly easier, if you ask me. Those things are screwed (not welded) together and they don't even use specialized screw heads. 99% are regular Phillips screws.
Was that not a backlighting sheet and LEDs at 2:40 ,@@sebastiank1714?
Those little glass tubes are the backlight's fluorescent bulbs. They contain mercury.
Hmm, makes you think about why it's easier to dump it than recycle it? Dangerous game they are playing there...seems to me, anyway.
micrograms.
I can't wait for the follow-up video where you put it back together.
If we financed the cost of disposal at the time of sale, it would be very low cost, low environmental impacts and low hassle. Manufacturers lobby strongly not to do this, so the opposite happens. The micro plastics that are created by sawblades and end up in our soil / water. We are so good at creating optional disasters it never ceases to amaze me.
I've fixed TVs like this for as little as $0.50 90% of the time it's just a swollen/popped capacitor.
Oh wow! Those should be easy to notice too.
@@4.0.4 I mean... If you take it apart yeah sure but most people don't even know what a swollen capacitor would look like and are not willing to open up the device themselves anyway
Yep! Exactly and very easy to fix.
@@wendigee its not hard to look at a bunch of normal capacitors elsewhere on the board and then see one that doesnt look like the others. I mean if youre in there looking to fix the thing youd probably have some idea what youre looking for, maybe have watched a KZhead video on it before you started too.
Btw in Germany retail has to take back old devices if you buy new ones
So it's just someone else throwing it in the trash for you lol.
Or you can just bring it to a "Wertstoffhof" (Don't know what that's called in English. Recycling Center maybe?). They'll take e-waste for free.
@@bobguy6542 yeah, but they're doing it without additional cost at time of disposal...
@@Quickened1 You're mixing together two different continents. In Germany there is no extra cost to throw away a TV. So it's pointless to drive it up to your local electronics store for them to throw away, when you could've just thrown it away yourself. At least in Rhineland-Pfalz
Here in Switzerland we pay a tax when you buy a thing and at the end of it's lifetime you can just bring it back. A bit less archaic :)
Yes, that’s the better way to handle e-waste. I only counted two people making this point, so thank you. Because this video failed to explicitly say this, it is just encouraging people to dump their TVs and abuse their freedom to make selfish decisions.
Love that you're using a left-handed Porter Cable cicular saw. I have one, but use it right-handed so I can see the blade. As for the others, nattering nabobs.
what a waste, you could recover a lot of components from it. At first I thought it was a belated april's fool.
At a local transfer station, I had an item that was going to cost $70 to dispose of... the attendant told me that if it were cut up and put in black bags he would not know what it was and there would be no fee to dispose of it. If you make recycling the expensive option, people will opt out.
Get the Husky brand 42 gallon 'contractor' bags at Home Depot. They're extremely thick and strong, and don't rip when you put heavy items inside.
@Screwdriver440 I get your point, but it rest on the idea that the majority of people will make good long-term decisions over short-term gains. That's just not what I see around me, but I live in California, so...
Recycling IS the expensive option, and the most poluting one too.
Recycling is legitimately expensive. Do you want the government to print money to pay for it, do you want higher taxes, or lead in the groundwater? Most people actually vote for the last option which is why it's a thing.
It's known as "Hitchcocking" and can be done easier with a screwgun and maybe a sawzall. The basic idea is to just break it down enough to fit into your recycle bin so your waste collector picks it up on Monday morning as usual. You're already paying them to do that. It ends up at the same sorting station where they were going to charge you an extra $70.
I cut a moped into 3 pieces with my 9" angle grinder and put it in my refuse bin over 3 weeks. Also a lawn mower over another 2 weeks.
It's good to see someone actually got the point of his video. Break the stuff down small and hide it in the bin with the regular refuse. ;)
@@stevemorris3710 Johnny cash? lol
@@xanataph Absolutely!
@@sevenmile And it.........will pack down....
In Germany we have a recycling system that is free for consumer electronics and household appliances. You only have to take the old devices to a recycling center. Every municipality has such a collection point. The cost of recycling is added to the price when purchasing equipment. That's a relatively small amount.
You're usually so safe-minded, so I was surprised to see you not wearing a mask and gloves to keep from breathing in that toxic dust. We should not pay anything to dispose of e-waste. Between ridiculous taxes and garbage collection fees, it should be covered. At least in the People's Republic of Illinois, we get one day a year to drop off these items. Thank God for the republic. Keep up the good work
maybe because he was in the open and there was a light breeze?
I live in Southern Illinois . they have Republic Trash workers in my area. I see people throwing their television sets out all the time!
What's 'toxic' about it?
LMAO @ toxic dust
you should never wear gloves when operating a saw. saw blades have a tendency to "grab" at gloves.
:O you could have recovered so many useful parts from this including a giant polarizer film i think.
Several comments mention that. What can the polarizer film be used for?
@@AtimatikArmy polarizing light. interesting light based experiments and optical effects
@@Kalanchoe1 Sounds cool, I'll have to see what I can find about it here on the tube. Thanks!
I took apart an LCD screen (for repair, not disposal) that had a SUPER BRIGHT backlight, I'm talking as bright as the freaking sun. I'm sure people can think of creative applications for that! Of course the other half is a translucent LCD panel you can put over a window or something to make a Star Trek computer display :)
In Germany if you sell electronics you are obliged to take old electronics back at no cost. Beside that you can dispose old electronics for free at any waste dispose center.
I used to work at a small electronics manufacturer, and we had a wave solder machine. These machines produced a small amount of solder dross (impurities in the solder that come out when it's melted). We would scrape it out of the machine into a 55 gallon drum. During my first few years there, tiny "mom and pop" companies would haul the stuff away, for free, separate it somehow (I don't know the details), and sell it back to various industries. Then one day they didn't come by any more. We managed to get ahold of the guy, and he explained that new hazardous waste handling rules would make it impossible to make a profit doing this any more, so they were going out of business. New companies sprang up, that charged a fee to haul it off and store it, essentially forever. So government intervention had completely flipped the market incentives. The first companies viewed the substance as a value - they wouldn't dump it in the environment, that would be like throwing money away. The later set of companies viewed this substance as a liability - by dumping it into the environment, they could save a lot of money. Government meddling ruins everything.
That's what government does best. I wish people could figure out that we don't need government. Our lives would be better off and we would have more than enough money from it not being drained by taxes, we'd be happy to pay for the services we need by the competive private sector to do those things more efficiently, faster, and far better in every way.
@@AtimatikArmy Taxes are good. Those taxes being wasted on murdering brown people is not good. Taxes, when properly used, go back to a community. Look at Scandinavian countries. 80+% tax rates, yet everyone is happy and their economies are thriving.
@@AtimatikArmy But who would make roads and pay doctors and indoctrinate.. errr educate our children? Everybody knows that if it weren't for taxes and the government, the wheel would have never been invented, let alone roads... LOL Socialist governments ruin everything. Problem is, there has never been a government that hasn't fallen pray to Marxist BS. Even Marx ended up seeing through his own BS but people still cheer for his errant thinking. Cheers.
@@C_Melvyn_James Yep I know. We would all live happier, more prosperous, much more free, and much more peaceful lives without government. Government is never for the people, it has always been to control people and slowly always erode their freedom and rights as time evolves. Government is the #1 cause to the most deaths in the world, significantly more than any disease, due to war and genocide which normal, ordinary freedom loving people want nothing to do with. Government also does not create any wealth, or do anything that is actually productive for society despite fooling most to think it. Wealth is created by the hard working productive class that government must coerce away from in order to exist. Then they waste that wealth in the most outlandishly inefficient way possible as there is no incentive for them to perform, be productive, timely or in any way that is in the best interest of the people they coerce their wealth from. And why would they being just other ordinary humans but ones who have the lust for power and have been granted complete control over us. If you do not comply to them you will be dealt with violence, financially ruined, kidnapped and put into a cage. Imagine if we took back those few things we hoped government did provide like roads, education, infrastructure and let the competition of the free market decide who is best for each job. We would have things done far better at the fraction of the cost. Things would be done much faster, better, more efficiently and we'd all have plenty of money to divide up these costs which would be far less for each to pay for at the local level. We wouldn't be blanket taxed on income, then again at each point of sale, then again for our properties not just at point of sale, but again and again every single year, it's insanity. After we get taxed coming and going and then every way in between it's way more than people think about. 60-75% of the wealth we create with our hard work, sweat and labor get robbed from us and then carelessly waisted away by the government in the most inhumane, least efficient way possible. I mean, when you didn't earn it, who cares right?!
@@AtimatikArmy Those second-order effects are always interesting. Bicycle helmet laws are/were one case that I recall.
I had an old Visio 48ish" TV go bad, the LCD portion decided to wack out. So I removed all of the LCD, Diffusser film, and polarizer film, leaving just one diffuser panel in place in front of the light tubes and turned it into the worlds largest nite-lite. I hung it over the work bench and the lighting was impressive, bright, even, minimal shadows. It lasted another 5 years and then Hurricane Ike took it out, the roof leaked and shorted out the power board, it died a quick death, a simple pop and a small puff of mad pixie fart and it was over...
Awesome idea!
People often forget forget about the other two R's/arrows in the triangle and automatically assume Recycle means it goes to a perfect reused state where nothing is wasted. American ignorance at its finest.
Did that to an old LCD monitor and it was over my pyrography/jewellery/leatherwork for years until we moved. Still miss that diffuse lighting.
@@j.ballsdeep420 I agree. I personally know a number of people who love to receive free stuff to re-purpose. How about the underfunded school with an electronics program? It inspires hope when I see thoughtful people like yourself. However, America is not the only place with a high priority on self gratification.
Pretty sure the light tubes don't have UV filters in them, that fuction is performed by the screen part.🤔😒 Would not recommend.
Usually is just the psu of the TV that blows up (although it often takes something else with it) and it is repairable. That said, in my country if you order a new TV for delivery they will often take to older one for recycling ... Then might even do a discount because of it...
@@thaphreak Doesn't need to be the same store, it is a recycling program that most of stores subscribed to... You can just drop the old TV (or oven, fridge, etc) in the designated pick up spots as well...
There are universal boards also that can be used last I knew. Wishing there were the same universal adapter boards for smartphone screens and cameras... seems so wrong robbing utility of the smartphones devices and really seems odd there isn't a Spectrum Analyzer available for smartphones RF chips.
Recyclers in the US exist for the same reason. The expensive components are more than worth the handling for the trash stuff. So it's a good business to get people to _give_ you expensive stuff for *free,* _and_ you can "save the environment" and other virtue signalling at the same time. It's insane that someone would try to make him pay to give it to them. That's like having a business where you have to pay people to take your old jewelry.
Often recapping the supply does the trick. I replace the rectifier diodes too.
@@Serahpin The expensive components are not always worth anything at all
It depends on the screen technology involved. Older sets use florescent bulbs that contain small amounts of mercury. I'm not sure what would happen if you tried to cut up a plasma set.
Ok so lets think about that for just a second. Basically ever business in America has used fluorescent lights since the 80s. How many do you think got broken in the trash and leaked small amounts of mercury into the environment? All of them. One more is a drop in an ocean. Plasma is a gas so if you break a plasma TV it leaks out and blows away.
It looked like this was fluorescent back lit
you will create a black hole.
The amount of mercury vapor is not nearly enough to have a serious effect on anything. It's literally a couple of atoms above vacuum.
@@markjones2349 I'm less concerned about the environment then the long-term health effects of exposure.
Even if it didn't save you money, I appreciate you filming this, and showing us some of that sass
I think this is a belated April fools joke. Freaked me out when I saw him cutting up the set with various power saws, and spewing toxic plastics, phosphorus from the back lights, mercury, metallic dust, etc., particularly with no respirator mask.
And where do you think all that stuff goes when they ship it to china, and they put it in a huge pile and burn it? This is just saving the CO2 emitted by shipping it half way around the world first.
I did not even consider that it might be old enough to contain CCFL backlight with mercury vapor tubes.
@@gorak9000 Well I can tell you one thing it's not going to China. They have stopped accepting most electronic waste and plastics over the last half dozen years. This is why the recycling fees have been going up and up as we pay more and more money to bury our garbage and waste plastic and electronics in someone else’s is backyard. Only 10% of “recycled” plastic it's actually turned into new products. Most is buried. This was a PR hoax started by the American plastics industry in the early 80s to get out of dealing with the problem.
@@HarvardBob So replace China with some other foreign country where they take huge piles of "e-waste" and burn all the plastic off to recover the metals - same difference. Usually it's shipped half way around the world somewhere, and burned, so cutting it apart here makes no difference.
@@lambda7652 - the amount of mercury in the CCFL tubes would be almost nothing. Consider all the linear and CFL fluorescent tubes, and where they end up... every one of the has more mercury than this TV.
Can you guys looks into building a DIY freeze dryer. I know it uses vaccum and vaccum pumps. Think it would be a cool project.
Haha... I was suprised to learn that you have to pay a disposal fee for electric/electronic waste at all. That is free of charge here (Norway). Obviously the rules are different around the globe...
some places think taxation pays for useful services, other places think it's theft. That's the difference.
Love your up front, 110% HONEST input especially when your own ideas didn’t work. I chuckled having been there myself.
Over here the manufacturer/importer has to pay a fee that will be used to recycle things. for a tv that weighs 25 kg, this will be about €7 €0,28 per kg. as the consumer can bring it to the recycling station for free. $70 is rediculous.
It is not ridiculous if not subsidized. I wouldn't be surprised if that was how much it actually costs to recycle. I bet your TV isn't actually recycled, just landfilled, otherwise it wouldn't be a per-kg fee
@@thewhitefalcon8539 no it's not landfilled, they claim to recycle 80% of the device. they grind them, catch the mercury vapor, remove/sort the metals, glass and aluminium, sort the plastic in some special way and re-use that as raw materials.
I'm confused, don't you still have to take it to the disposal place anyway?
not if it now fits in your regular garbage bin - for that matter, they make larger bins that the whole thing would easily fit into without all the work - they usually seem to hang out behind stores and strip malls
In my country, you pay for the recycling when you purchase a new item. Sales and deliveries are obliged to take the old equipment for recycling, without any additional fees to the customer - they pay for it when buying a new. Works like a charm.
@Tech Ingredients what happened to your TEC stuff? Did you guys remove the video?
What video are you referring to? I don't think we have removed anything.
@@TechIngredients you didn’t. I found it.
You have to pay $100 dollars in the US just to throw away a TV!? Here it's free, you drive to the place and just put it in the pile. America be crazy
I think it’s because of what state he’s in. I’ve never heard of anything like that where I live.
no not generally, ive been paid to recycle my electronics
@@the_chomper In my state, I quit recycling plastic when they wanted to charge me $40/month. Yes, waste management wanted me to pay them to recycle my plastic.
Or you just toss it in the desert or find an apartment/stores open dumpster and toss it 🤷🏿♂️
Maybe you just don't know about it. For example we (Czech Republic) pay recycling fee when buying new electronics, however it is not explicitely said anywhere so a lot of people don't know about it. However the biggest fee (electronics with coolants like frigdes and large screens) is a bit under $10.
Weeeelll, to be honest, you got me startled - and not just a bit (checked twice if it was april fools).. Here in Germany the Industry has to take back old electrical/electronics devices (Altgeräteverordnung) - which is usually done by the point of sale (if you still have the receipt from buying it) or the local waste management facility - who transport those units back to receycling facilities, to disassemble and handle properly... And the second thing is: I thought you were a man of intellect - and you raw approach of sheer destruction caught me unguarded... I would have disassembled it the opposite way it was assembled, checked everything for any salvageable parts/items (like the screen, cables, electronics) and would have then reduce it in size.. So yeah, i'm a bit disappointed
Clearly, what a capitalist approach ! and "I do not care at all of the environment" what a pitty !
A cool video idea would be to test the effects of organite against EMF/microwave radadiation. I'm curious to see if it does anything. Thanks for all the cool videos you guys rock 🎸 😎 👍👍.
We had an old flat-screen TV that failed, and sure enough, the local recycling wanted way more money to take it than I wanted to spend. So I put it at the end of the driveway, with a "FREE!" sign on it, describing the condition and symptoms. Within a day or two, it was gone. I don't know whether someone made it work again, or took it apart and made use of the parts, but it was no cost to me. ISTM that the recycling cost should be built into the sales price, and that any business that sells a class of product should be required to take them back for recycling at no additional cost to the consumer. So Homeless Despot would have to take all of your fluorescent tubes, Wally Mart would have to take flat screen TVs, etc.
All those plastic shreds are good fertilizer for surrounding vegetation :D
I may have uhh... Done some things of questionable legality with some old broken CRTs in my younger years, but I am well versed in the hammer technique. These days LED edge lit displays make decent light panels. Haven't thrown a monitor away in years.
... CRTs in a landfill will leak lead and mercury as water flows thru them, but so what, these are inert chemicls so no explosion or gas forms, and there are 100 layers of thick plastic around a landfill. So about the safest place they could be. . . . Near here is a gunrange where lead bullets hit steel plates so clouds of lead go into the air, ha.... I wish some scientist were put in charge, instead we have Politicians banning tiny plastic straws while allowing me to burn 10,000 pounds of gasoline and natural gas yearly, so yeah good job banning straws. Us humans are silly.... I read a book about in 2100 a guy makes billions using future tech to recover all the stuff in landfills which sounds like it might turn out true.
Ya, I would have paid 10$ at least for all that stuff still usable in it.
@@bluelivesmatter8502 That's why recyclers exist, to get free expensive stuff. I'm surprised the TV wasn't taken for free for just that reason.
@@Serahpin Well it depends on the demand. If nobody will pay for the parts then the recycler won't want to take it either. Unless they're a charity. Charity is neat but it won't save the world.
You're an educational channel, you could have take that as an opportunity to show how individual parts of the TV can be recycled, instead of this pointless, salty display of mayhem because somebody asked you for a disposal fee. You buy stuff, you take on responsibility to eventually dispose of it, that's how it works, be an adult about it.
but but but capitalism. taxes. profit. fees.
Hey off subject but can you do a video on protecting a camera from high acceleration/shock forces? I keep having issues with a camera on a high power rocket
Must have been fun but Fresnel lens, power supply's and much more all that great stuff !...cheers.
There are no fresnel lenses in flat screens - you've clearly never taken anything apart in your life!
Well how wrong you are and a good example of what they can be used for is shown on a channel called 'DIY Perks' maybe have a look if you've done your homework and your mum will let you.
@@gorak9000 Says the person who obviously hasn't taken anything or at least very much a part in his life. LOL
@@AtimatikArmy There are no fresnel lenses in flat screens. Fresnel lenses are in rear projection TVs, of which this, and any other flat screen, is not. I have taken plenty of things apart, some for scrap, some to build something else out of, and some just to more easily fit into a garbage can.
@@andymouse What's your address? Any TV I need to throw out, I'll just ship it to you so you can make a fake window out of it so you'll stop whining on the internet. Not everyone wants to spend time re-purposing every piece of junk they throw away. If he wanted to do something with this TV, he would've. He's either not interested, doesn't need a fake window, or maybe the video is just to prove a point about how stupid "disposal fees" are, or maybe, just maybe, it was specifically to trigger people like you. How many fake windows have you made out of your old TV's? I'd wager that less than 10 fake windows were ever made as a result of DIY Perk's video. Just because he spent a lot of time and money doing it doesn't mean ANYONE else is. 99% of his projects make moderately ok youtube videos, but are never things I'd actually spend my own time or money building.
It would have been easier to use a screwdriver and just take it apart. In canada (at least Saskatchewan) we have free e waste recycling.
heh, yeah, because in Saskatchewan, there's how many miles of dark unmonitored --tv disposal sites-- rural roads. That's usually what happens when they start charging stupid fees to dispose stuff - it ends up all over the place, but stupid politicians never learn
Not for long, they will tax us into poverty in any way they can, and rapidly.
'Free' just means that you already paid for it, ahead of time. You don't think the recycler is working for a salary of $0.00, do you?
Except that wasn't the point of the video.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 The recycling companies get paid by the governments. There's no shortage of money, that is being printed like crazy. They're creating pandemics, wars, climate changes just to control literally everything and everyone, and fees and taxes just do the trick.
Lol! This reminded me of my husband mansplaining to me that my "hippie recycling urges" are costing him, and the world, more money than just tossing everything into the trash. But, before anyone goes off, we are over 70, we've been together forever, this is a game we've played for years, I have to pretend to defend my position (even though I'm finding it to be getting time-consuming), and if we weren't talking about this, he'd be wanting to fool around! I let him win, both the "argument" and maybe a little bit of the other thing, too.
You seem to be man-aging your situation very well. He'll like to the win of the argument, but he'll definitely stay for the other thing.
@@johncoops6897 it's worked for us for over 50 years. Laughter is essential!
In the Netherlands we pay a premium on top of the selling price, to cover the cost of disposal/recycling after it's useful life. So we can dispose of this kind of equipment for free.
Wow we can take anything to the dump (apart from e.g. asbestos) for free here in the UK. If we couldn’t then there would be a lot more fly-tipping. But I suppose we get free universal healthcare, free college, subsidised dental etc because our tax isn’t spent on a huge military
And for some reason, we use our big military to deter people from invading you.
@@roflchopter11 I know you like to think that, same as you like to think you played a big part in the world wars. The truth is the opposite though. All the wars you’ve started in the last 20-30 years like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen etc have caused a huge increase in terrorism. Britain also played a big part in most of these wars so we’re not innocent either. There’s no doubt that you have the most impressive and large military though. But bear in mind that all of the 9 countries that have nuclear weapons are able to annihilate the planet, even the poorer ones like India and Pakistan. Britain, like USA, are part of NATO, though. It is NATO that gives us all security. Nobody wants to take on 30 countries because, of course, they’ll lose.
Not all Council recycling sites are free in the UK. Some also charge like wounded bulls.
You´re two days late.
Not for Patreons
Ohhhhhh
I expected the date of this video having been posted to be April 1st. Truthfully though, they do make it prohibitively expensive to do the right thing in too many places. E-waste is almost harmless compared to the hazardous waste people are more than happy to dump wherever for "free" because the expense of doing it correctly. Almost like we really need to take a round turn on internalizing the external costs of product producers...
isn't cutting apart florescent tube lights a really bad idea? Do they have mercury? newer TVs are LED backlit so i imagine its not the same concern
You could have used the polarization filters... Excellent demoliton on the other hand. Now becoming the rebellion-channel.
You could try to salvage a couple of parts (like Fresnel lens), but in general it seems like a sane response to a $70 disposal fee.
LCD TVs don’t have those lenses. Only rear projection TVs do.
@@jjhack3r Yup exactly what I was going to say. I keep seeing this comment over and over again, clearly by people that have never taken anything apart in their life.
Where I live, we pay "eco fees" at the time of purchase. This is supposed to fund the e-waste programs, and indeed a lot of this stuff can be brought to the recycling facility at no cost. There are some organisations that will even collect the stuff from your curb. I did that last year with a 75" TV that suffered an untimely death. But of course, you get truck-nuts-geniuses who complain about the eco fees and threaten to take their business elsewhere. Luckily I no longer deal with that market segment, but the poor kids at the retail computer shops sure do.
That's right-wingers for you. Can you believe they run half the country?
I must confess that I’m guilty of putting old electronic devices at the end of my driveway with a sign “$5.00 or Best Offer” they disappear within a few hours.
I thought the chemistry in LCD panels was a bit nasty. Respirator masks (FFP2) might have been a good idea?
not when you've been drinking and you're pissed off!
I'm surprised he put on any safety equipment. lol!!!
nah, he's using beer as a forcefield
He can always build himself some external lungs out of PVC piping and some moist sponges, it’s the Tech Ingredients channel after all
Not to mention the many “glass tubes” that all contain mercury. They are fluorescent lamps.
I love your reaction when someone pisses you off, always gives me a chuckle. Taking nonviolent protest to the next level haha.
Not sure I would qualify this as non-violent. The TV might disagree
@@WoLpH haha
Here in Ireland, there is a levy built in to the price of new consumer electronics that covers the recycling cost. There are free drop-off points throughout Ireland for old electrical appliances, i.e. anything that operates on a plug or battery. I remember there being criticism over when it was first introduced as prices went up around 5-10%, but at least there's no more seeing tossed out fridges, washing machines, etc randomly tossed along rural roads.
Absolutely loving it! A bit strange at first. But suddenly so calming...
Good point! ... *"disposal fees" are a first step to "nudge" us towards a society where owning things will be made so unattractive, that renting all physical objects will appear to be the economic solution* (while in reality, it's expensive by design and a tool to tie you up in economic dependency).
There's some pretty neat films in a TV. Polarizing films and on some sets even fresnel lenses. Could be worth saving
action films too
Nah, all trash. Bust it up and dump it
I have two monitors where the rear-most reflector sheet has started to crack and crumble into dust. Some kind of white PET/plastic. You never know when you might need stuff like that, especially considering how little room they take up.
Fresnel lenses are only in projection TVs.
This is why recycling's a business. You give them expensive stuff for free. It more than offsets the trash they have to take care of, so it's win-win.
This was like one of those handyman corner parts of a red green episode. 🤣
Do the new TVs still have large capacitors, like the old tube style did?
No.
This feels like it was meant for 1st of April
So what do you do with it once its cut up ? and what is the solution to micro-plastics I know the super meal worms digestive microbes can digest Styrofoam
just put it in your regular garbage bin. you can easily fit an entire washer or dryer in a regular garbage bin if you cut it up first - ask me how i know!
We only have the small size garbage bins (unless we pay extra), so we have to chop up our electronics even smaller. I just put out our rubbish tonight, and it included 2 x PCs and a printer. Oh, and about 5 broken roof tiles.
@@gorak9000 Nice name Gorak9000 and thanks for the answer but what about the environ mint?
@@johncoops6897 Reduce reuse recycle . Peace
@@johncoops6897 Then you sir need one of those shredding machines that munches stuff up into small bits ala: kzhead.info/sun/ksmylbGuqV9-iJs/bejne.html
Get a TV box from someone who just bought a new TV. Pack this thing up carefully, (with tape and everything) and put it in the back of your pickup truck. Then, park it at the grocery store, or somewhere. This way you can solve the problem, and laugh your ass off for years.
Brilliant, best idea of all of these comments! Not to mention great viral content to post up on youtube... I'd happily watch that!
A large tarp underneath to help with cleanup?
Watching tech ingredients slow descent into madness is priceless.
My friend used to say to me “There’s a fine line between madman and genius, and you’re on that line” 🤣
I guess this is why disposal costs are built into the purchase price over here.
I believe I've had this exact tv for over a decade, and it also started smoking at some point. Luckly I was able to get it fixed and it's still serving me today
Speaking of disposal. I wonder if you guys have any ideas on dealing w/ EPS foam block packing material. In my region there is no collection of EPS for recycling but I have found there is a manufacturer of polystyrene decorative moldings that will accept clean bulk EPS. Their facility is on my way to work so maybe once a year I'd load up what I had collected and drop it off. I haven't been going in to the office for a bit over 2 years (bet you can't guess why) and it doesn't make sense to burn a couple of gallon of gas or more to drop off a few pounds of EPS. My collection is getting a bit unwieldy having to periodically move it around to get to things in my garage is leaving little foam beads all over the place... If only there was a way to make it take up less space so I could keep collecting it at home and drop it off when "I am over that way anyway". I've spent a bit of time researching this and in the industry this is called densification and there is in fact a market for this material. Densifiers are generally shredders attached to extruders that empty into what looks like stainless steel molds that produce ingots. The ingots look to be 8-10" thick and are stacked grids of 2x2 or 2x3 in layers on standard shipping pallets. (Note: I haven't checked w/ my local foam products company as to whether or not they accept densified EPS or not but I have to imagine the first thing they do w/ the collected material is to... well densify it. So maybe they could be talked into it.) Any thoughts on how to densify EPS at home? I thought about maybe looking for a larger toaster oven at a thrift store. Partly closing the hot end of a heat gun in a box. Using some 3-4" black pipe stood on end with an endcap with a hole in it and using a heat gun or scavenged heating elements to make a rudimentary extruder. I also thought about using solvents to reduce EPS. I imagined that acetone and other volatile and dangerous solvents would likely work (and they do) but it turns out that D-limonene (an essential oil found in orange peels) is an effective solvent for EPS. There is some information on this online but a lot of it seems to come from one individual. I don't meant to discredit them but it's just surprising that there isn't more. The same person appears to run recycle-art-dot-org, has created an instructable and is called out in a hackaday-dot-com article. This person uses the polystrene to cast art projects which is cool, though honestly this process looks less appealing to me. Apparently it can take months for the solvents to flash off and so until they do you have a goopy mess in a bucket. Another thought that occurs to me is that retailers often bale their cardboard waste, I wonder if something similar could be done for EPS (EPP also?). Retailers that deal w/ a lot of EPS could have densifiers on site to deal w/ their waste and accept community dropped off waste also. I realize this would likely take regulation to either simply force it or perhaps to incentivize the free market. -Alan
Roasting pan over a grill burner? 210°C to 250°C Use a lid or cover, too.
What a shame. The fresnel diffusers inside big screen tvs are amazing. Fun to use for many projects.
Plasma TVs don't have one, about the only part worth salvaging is the backlight.
Took a couple of CRT monitors to best buy for them to recycle, and they said it would cost me. So I took them and tossed them in their own dumpster behind their building.
“For them to recycle”. So that’s a totally free process staffed by interns? How do imagine a better process would work?
@@____________________________.x For them to take responsibility for recycling*
@@thewhitefalcon8539 For which they would have to charge you, either up front or at EOL, pick one
That really was unnecessary. You could've done many educational things with that TV like repair it, at least show us the components/layout that make a flat screen TV work / the engineering that went into it. At least you could have reused the polarisers from the screen and the CCFL tubes (if they weren't the issue) Most likely just a few capacitors in the PSU needed replacement, but you shred it in half, including the (most likely Hg containing) CCFL tubes. I wouldn't have expected a video like this from a great channel like yours at all.
You literally missed the entire point of the video. He DID do an educational video using it, you just failed to understand. The entire point of the video was a statement about how if the cost and difficulty of properly recycling products is too high, people will do the easy/bad/dumb option instead. This is a statement about recycling in NA and many countries, not a literal how to video. Ffs
Usually i like your content, but this video got me sad. Its hard watching someone mistreat electronics. Btw 70$ for disposal kind of sounds expensive, it would be cheaper to repair it
I would suggest anyone that doesn't already have a "pay up front" system in place to petition their state to implement one similar to many European countries, most Canadian provinces, and some US states (California is an example). Where I live (BC, Canada) you would have had to pay $4.50 when you *bought* this TV (30" to 45") or $8 (46" and up) then when you return it to an e-waste site you just drop it off without paying anything extra. This applies to many other things as well, with fees ranging from 5 cents to a few dollars, and includes all electronics, all appliances, batteries, and even things like fire extinguishers, tires, the list is very long. Industrial producers, (companies producing paper and plastic packaging for example) pay into the system annually based on tonnage produced. But yes, if I chose to bring any of these things at a landfill instead of a recycling facility, and they accepted them (most would turn me away if I showed up with a TV) then I would be charged extra for that.
We also have a television that we need to dispose of. This brings up some questions. Since the installation of smart meters, power outages have changed. Looking back, in the past, a tree would fall and that would trip a breaker high up on the pole. You could go out and find the source of the outage. After the tree was cleaned up a worker would stop and reset the breaker on the pole. The power may or may not go out depending on where the tree is located in relation to different breakers. Now we get a lot of quick power outages that last a few minutes and just mess up the clocks. We also get more wide spread power outages where neighboring towns also have their power go off. The "breakers" aren't tripped most the time now. It's like they just turn the power off and on remotely now. A power outage may also last longer for no visible reason. The meters were supposed to allow people to watch their usage easier and make it so they can recognize outages remotely. It was also an agenda forced onto people all at the same time even in different countries. We still have to call and tell them that the power is off. They'll call and ask if it came on when it didn't. We also have more damage happening to equipment in relation to outages. They basically want to control everything including your privately owned devices in the home. If they are intentionally trying to mess up equipment, would simple surge protectors work? What can be done to protect electrical equipment from a intentional attack? From what I was told, smart meters send their billing information through the air from house to house. Another company told me that their meter sends billing information through the power lines. Can "they" enter a computer through the power cord (internet disconnected and wifi off) if other information can be sent through power lines?
Suggestion, put a sign on it: “For Sale $250” and leave at the side of the road. With any luck someone will steal it.
I like the way you think...
This reminds me of the time my Dad was too cheap to pay for a dumpster so we threw away an entire roof's worth of shingles 1 garbage can at a time
That's what I did with a section of privacy fence. It took a couple of months. I keep an old circular saw handy for "reducing my waste".
The plasma display panel (PDP) is rapidly becoming obsolete, contributing in large amounts to the electronic waste stream. In order to assess the potential for environmental pollution due to hazardous metals leached from PDP glass, standardized leaching procedures, chemical speciation assessments, and bioavailability tests were conducted. According to the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP), arsenic in back glass was present at 4.46 ± 0.22 mg/L, close to its regulation limit of 5 mg/L. Zn is not available in the TCLP, but its TCLP leaching concentration in back glass is 102.96 ± 5.34 mg/L. This is because more than 90% of Zn is in the soluble and exchangeable and carbonate fraction. We did not detect significant levels of Ag, Ba, or Cu in the TCLP leachate, and the main fraction of Ag and Ba is residual, more than 95%, while the fraction distribution of Cu changes SEP by SEP. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA)- and diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA)-extractable Ag, As, Ba, Cu, Zn, and Ni indicate a lower biohazards potential. These results show that, according to the EPA regulations, PDP glass may not be classified as hazardous waste because none of the metals exceeded their thresholds in PDP leachate. However, the concentrations of As and Zn should be lowered in the manufacturing process and finished product to avoid potential pollution problems.
And how much micro plastic partials did you release into the environment?
Also a great way to introduce micro plastics into the environment 😕
I think you should do some research on micro plastics and why and how thay are bad and you'll realize you comment is kinda silly.... this is sarcasm! For the slow out there.
I'm sure they swept
@@nicholasjackson1854 Your comment is kind of silly, you don't even have an argument?
@@JesseWetherell can u not tell its a joke? Just like the video is silly is was a satire video lol
@@nicholasjackson1854 it’s called sarcasm my man…
That looks like an excellent way to create micropollution. And expose yourself to heavy metals and other toxins. I realize you’re trying to make a point about the repercussions of high disposal fees, but I’m not sure that will be everyone’s takeaway. Instead, I fear many will see this as you condone cutting apart electronics to supposedly throw them into the garbage. Also, BestBuy will dispose of similar TVs for $30 in almost all states. A far more reasonable price.
Exactly 😐