Getting rid of old PC monitors

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Actually, here is the website: http://www.crispej.org.uk/waste/offers/index.htm

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

London schmonden, that doesn't help me.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

That place does seem exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for tho - just in Oxford! Eeeek!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I took mine to the local Council Rubbish Tip and threw it in. It landed with a very satisfying crunching sound.

This does sound satisfying, but CRT monitors are full of nasty toxins like pounds of lead, so if you can't find a scheme that will reuse them, your council should at least provide safe disposal/recycling facilities.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

westminster council tries to charge 20 squid for removals! i went and left mine at the end of my road at 3am :/

that said it was gone by 9am

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm in the same situation. I believe Oxfam accepts old monitors but so far I haven't been able to find out how/where to drop it off.

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Now that's more like it:

[url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/computers.htm][/url]

Sounds much better than dumping it.

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

CRT monitors are full of nasty toxins like pounds of lead

So *that's* why they're so bloody heavy :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

OXFAM IS UNABLE TO ACCEPT COMPUTER DONATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS.

:-(

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

You could probably freecycle it. John, there's a big freecycle Oxford group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OxfordFreecycle/

― angle of d... (tingo), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

On similar lines, there's the Donate a PC scheme.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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