Getting rid of old PC monitors

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I've just bought a new PC and now have an unwanted 17" CRT monitor lying around the place.

I'm presuming that these things have zero value now (?), so what's the best way to get rid of it? I'd rather not dump the thing, so are there any (UK) charities that make good use of old monitors?

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe new legislation came into place last August which states that either (I forget) the people you bought the new computer off or the people you bought the original monitor off are obliged to remove and recycle the old CRT from your possession. I can't remember details, but I remember our systems admin guy telling us about it - it's applicable to all sorts of electrical goods. A quick google should turn something up.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link

or find someone whose laptop screen's knackered and they can't afford to get it fixed and give it to them. i think there are reuse!recycling charities for it too though.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

My old monitor needs getting rid of as well - any Oxford people have any use for a massive 17" IBM monitor? Does the business, if a little huge for my desk.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps I should just phone the council. Maybe they dish them out to local schools, or something?

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Shotgun from point-blank is the most fun, if not the most environmentally sound.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I disposed of an old knackered monitor myself this week. It must be the season for it.

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

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I took mine to the computer refurbishment department at work, we have to pay a company to dispose of them nowadays! 17-inch ones still get sold as part of the cheap pc packages they put together, mine was only a 15-inch though.

― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Mrs tN used this company to get recycle her steam-powered old computer and monitor recently. They charged a fiver to pick it up.

Office Furniture Fittings & Equipment Recycling Scheme
(a project set up and managed by CRISP / Elephant Jobs)
7 – 9 Brandon St., London SE17 1NA
020 7703 5222
offers@crispej.org.uk

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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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