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Efforts Underway to Recycle TV’s Safely

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Featured on Episode 17 of the 2007-2008 season

 

Kate Bolduan tells us how the 2009 digital broadcast conversion will affect our homes and our landfills. TV owners can buy a digital converter to make their older TVs usable, but many will buy new digital TVs, sending the older models to the landfill. However, TVs and computers contain large amounts of lead as well as mercury that can be dangerous to our health and the environment. Efforts are under way to recycle these projects safely.

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http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&categoryId=8198552921644513777&langId=-1&storeId=10151

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