If you have purchased a new HD television and are not relegating the old TV to a spare room or passing it on to someone else, how are you going to dispose of the analog set?

It’s important to consider the impact of tossing it out with the rest of the household trash. You may not realize the amount of harmful elements contained in an analog TV. Since X-Rays are found inside an operating picture tube, leaded glass is used to protect viewers from exposure. It’s said the typical picture tube contains 4 pounds of lead. Surprising, isn’t it? Add to that the circuit boards found in the set with all those solder connections and you can see the potential for contaminating landfills. Now that more and more HD televisions are making their way into households, we stand to do some real environmental harm by improper disposal of old analog sets.

Electronics trash, or e-trash is a growing problem. So please do the responsible thing and take your old set (and this goes for any electronic equipment: radios, computers and the like) to an electronics recycler. You can find them in the phone book or through an on-line search.