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Can I Take Electronics from Recycling Center? Well not loads and loads of items, but maybe one bad condition cell phone, and one old computer desktop?

Where can you recycle TVs, computer monitors or VCRs where they won't charge you to drop it off? Is there anywhere that picks stuff up? I have a TV that doesn't work I need to get rid of.
A thrift store won't take the TV. Also it's too large for me to move. All of the links provided indicated that they charged.
Kansas, not Missouri.
I still find it hard to believe with all the push for recycling that it's so hard to find places to take stuff. It doesn't encourage recycling.
I think people seem to be missing the fact that I said the TV is too large for me to move even if I could get it into the car.

About a year ago I found an Ipod Touch in the street while biking. The glass over the screen was cracked in hundreds of pieces yet still intact. There were few dead pixels. I used it up to a month ago where the headphone jack quit working. (which defeats the point of an ipod) so I opened it up to try to see if I can fix it but broke the electronics in the glass which made it unresponsive.
So basically I have useless piece of metal and glass. What can I do with it? Can I sell it or recycle it in a way to get money?

A couple months ago, I was assigned to a short-term temporary job at a really shady foreign-owned business in Los Angeles County. It's an electronics recycling company and instead of recycling collected electronics, all they do is ship the items direct to China or just throw the items away in the trash here.

Anyways, the owner/operator of the business is currently on an investor visa. (Sorry, I do not know which one exactly but he is from Taiwan if that helps at all...) He wants to gain permanent residency and some conditions for him to do keep his current visa include 1) getting to a certain level of revenue and profits, 2) hiring a certain number of US workers, 3) paying appropriate taxes, etc.

This guy 1) cheats on his financials, issues bogus invoices to himself to reach condition certain profit and revenue levels. 2) He has ZERO legit employees. He just exchanges checks every month with some US nationals or green card holders to pretend like they're being paid.

Perhaps, it's none of my business to get involved but how would I report a scumbag like this, cheating his way towards a green card? Thank you for reading.
Thank you for the responses thus far. Missing details: He is currently on an E-2 visa. Seems like he's set up a more elaborate plan: he actually has two companies setup, one for himself that gets him the E-2 visa (with the conditions mentioned above) and a bogus company (incorporated by his sister who's never been to the US). Apparently, he's using the second bogus company to "hire" him and petition for a green card on his behalf.

Is this legal?

I know that online you can get paid to recycle old cell phones, mp3 players and other electronics, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a website I can get paid to recycle old cords? I have plenty of cords from computers, phones, etc and if I could get paid to get rid of them that would be great.

Thank you to all who answer helpfully!!!!

I work for a company where I get lots of copper pipe, I sometimes make $200 a week just in scrap from copper and the soda cans that I drink. I used to recycle bottles, electronics, and cardboard but lately it's been getting hard for me to get to the recycling center so I gave up on recycling temporarily. But today as I was taking an old broken VCR to the dumpster, I realized that it's pretty heavy. Is there anything in a VCR that's worth taking it apart and scrapping? Any cast aluminum or brass, copper? Or am I better off just putting it in the trash?

I just recently noticed that the recycling process not only takes in just bottles and cans; but basically anything plastic by being divided into "resin codes". These include anything 'plastic' from bottles to plastic bags, electronics, toys, and even glass:

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But why is it everytime I throw any type of plastic bags or plastic covered into the recycling bin my father keeps telling me that it's "unrecyclable" and that the factory workers simply won't recycle the items despite the "resin code" I just noticed about? Is this true? Will the factory workers really disregard anything plastic unless it is a bottle, can or any type of container? Can someone please explain the process to me, I'm really dying to learn how the recycling process really works if I ever throw 'anything plastic' into the recycling bin again...

The term PBDEs refers to a class of chemicals used for decades as fire retardants, found in vehicles, airplanes, virtually any furniture with foam in it, carpet padding, and electronics. Known to bioaccumulate in humans and animals, they've been long banned in Europe, although in America were only outlawed in 2004, and go figure, can still be used in imported goods. Recent studies (look them up via wiki or google) published this year have correlated women with higher blood serum levels with infertility and trouble conceiving, while both childhood and prenatal resulted in significant developmental delays - neurological and physical, but mostly neurological - and up to a five to eight point IQ loss, which basically means that PBDEs are practically as bad as lead. What's worse, is that American levels continue to rise each year because our houses and our foods are all so saturated with these chemicals, and we're nearing the same levels that caused thyroid and liver mutations/cancers in lab animals.

Does this not alarm anyone else? PBDEs work in subtle and difficult to detect ways; who knows how many children from recent generations are suffering brain damage from PBDEs? One drop was all it took to permanently brain damage and alter the behavior of exposed mice.

And to anyone educated on this subject, I pose a question that pertains to myself: Whereas normal chemical exposure goes, I don't worry myself; it's inevitable, and living in society means we're subject to being slowly poisoned by a toxic brew of who knows what and that's fine as we've all got a share in it, but I don't wanna end up being one of those people with levels that are off the charts. I practice MMA and train on an old carpet from the early 80s, and it's all torn up and the padding is exposed in many areas. It's fairly cushioned unlike most carpet paddings, but nevertheless it seems to be rebond, which is a type of padding made up of tons of bits of recycled foams from a host of sources (other carpet pads, vehicle seats, furniture cushions). I love training there, but should I fear that this regular contact with the padding (we practice barefoot) can cause insanely high levels of PBDEs in my blood? After all, carpet recyclers, when tested, showed some of the highest blood levels of PBDEs found in any group ever studied. If anyone could recommend what to do here, thanks.

where can i take my old computer to have it recycled? i have totally smashed the hard drive, so am not worried about my data, but don't want to just throw the old laptop into the trash. Best Buy, maybe?

Hi, I have some TV remotes, chargers, and other electronics that i don't want and want to get rid of them.

By the way they all still work.

Recently my company was tossing out a 5 year old laptop after it was sitting in storage for 3 years. I grabbed it, re-installed Windows, and the drivers for it, added Open Office, and it works great. Was even watching online videos. No reason this laptop couldn't be used, except nobody at the company wanted it any more.

Then was walking through a local place called "Weird Stuff Warehouse" which has all sorts of recycled electronics components. I saw complete 900 Mhz Cordless phone systems for $5. I know where I'm going when my current cordless phone dies.