Electronic products contain both valuable materials that can be recycled, as well as toxic chemicals that should be kept out of the landfill.
For a fee of $25.00 televisions can be recycled at the Central Transfer Station, Centralia, or the East Lewis County Transfer Station, Morton during regular operating hours.
Free options are also available for these items.
They can be reused if in working condition. List it on http://www.2good2toss.com/lewis/?content=lewis someone might want it.
Non-working or obsolete electronics can be recycled through the State of Washington's E-cycle program.
There is no cost for households to recycle the following:
- Televisions
- Computers
- Computer monitors
- Portable or laptop computers including "tablet computers"
- E-readers (also called e-book readers)
- Portable DVD players
For further details see E-Cycle Washington, below.
Or call 1-800-RECYCLE to find electronic product recycling services in your area.
A cathode ray tube is a high-vacuum tube in which cathode rays produce a luminous image on a fluorescent screen, used chiefly in televisions and computer terminals
A Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) is the video display component of a television or computer monitor. Twenty-five percent of the glass in a CRT can be lead oxide and because of this high lead content CRTs should not be disposed of into a landfill.
The standard television screen is a sophisticated CRT, as are some of the screens on which computer output is displayed. Increasingly, flat-panel displays are now replacing CRTs.
