• THE PROBLEM WITH ELECTRONICS
• Problem Overview
• Quickly Obsolete
• Hard to Recycle
  • Not designed for recycling
  • Toxics in Electronics
• E-Waste Badly Managed
  • E-waste in landfills
  • Global e-waste dumping
  • Prison recycling
• OUR WORK FOR SOLUTIONS
• Overview
• Producer Takeback
  • You make it, you take it back
  • Who takes back
  • Take Back My TV
  • About the industry
• Green Design
  • About green design
  • Purchasing green products
  • EPEAT
• Responsible Recycling
  • What is responsible recycling?
    • Beware of fake recycling
    • Manufacturers Commitment
  • How to recycle electronics
    • Find a responsible recycler
    • Manufacturer takeback programs
    • The e-stewards program
  • "R2" is not the answer
  • Info for recyclers
• Legislation and Policy
  • State legislation
  • State legislative toolkit
  • Federal legislation

 

The EPA estimated that at the end of 2007, we had 99.1 million TVs in storage (not being used) in US homes.

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View our TV Recycling Report Card.

 

 

 

 

Take Back My TV Campaign

Digital Conversion Creates E-Waste Tsunami

On June 12, 2009, TV broadcasters will stop sending out analog TV signal, and TVs that can't receive digital signal (or can't convert digital to analog) will go dark. If you get your signal from major cable networks, all satellite services, or via a converter box, you will still get signal.

The digital conversion, along with the availability of new TV technology, is leading millions of consumers to set aside their old analog TVs, even if they still work. Yet the planners of the digital conversion have made NO efforts to deal with the resulting e-waste tsunami of TVs being tossed this year.

TV Companies Should Offer Free Takeback

The TV companies are, of course, hard at work selling us all the new digital TVs. (Sharp's ad line clearly tells us that we must trash our old TVs: Change your TV, change your life. So we think it's logical that these manufacturers offer free takeback and recycling of all our old TVs. So in November 2007, when Sony was the only company with a TV takeback program, we launched our Take Back My TV campaign.

Since then, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have followed Sony's lead and launched national takeback programs.

See our TakeBackMyTV.com website for more information about this campaign, and the TV Company Recycling Report Card.