So what happens to all those old TV's.

ftlnn

Hi,

I was wondering with the digital switchover what are likely to happen to all of those outdated TV's which would not be worth investing in Saorview boxes for. Per say in the situation where a hotel was going to upgrade all of their TV's to be compatible? So if you found yourself with 100 of these TV's what would their value be? Or are they simply consigned to the dump?

swoofer

dump

zg3409

They are considered electrical waste. For the homeowner any recycling centre will take them for free. For businessess they need to pay to have them recycled.

Older CRT TV's contain lead which can be harmful but may be valuable.

See here for more info:
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/clean-tech/item/29558-digital-switchover-will/

Tazz T

You make a good point there.

There seems to be a lot of people seeing Saorview as an opportunity to upgrade their old tellies for Saorview models instead of buying Saorview boxes by the amount of threads in Bargains and Bargain Requests.

The state should have put some sort of recycling initiative together.

zg3409

Tazz T wrote: »

The state should have put some sort of recycling initiative together.

Every recycling centre takes TVs. Every electrical outlet selling TVs has to take the old one for free. This has been the case for years if not decades.

ftlnn

Seems an awful shame in the case where one might find themselves with a truck-load of older working sets. So they are consigned to the dump? If so there will be a lot of dumping very soon and hopefully all legal.

mike65

They are not dumped, they are stripped and what can be recycled is. Anything with a plug can be taken to a centre for free under the WEEE directive.

ftlnn

Now that I did not know. I am very surprised by that also as I was trying to dispose of a large number of CRT's previously and was being quoted big numbers by recycling centres.

The Cush

WEEE Ireland announced as SAORVIEW's official recycling partner for the digital switchover - http://www.recyclefree.ie/presscentre.html

Recycling your old TV set.

WEEE Ireland is SAORVIEW’s official recycling partner.
If you wish to upgrade to a new SAORVIEW Approved TV, your old set can be recycled for FREE across the country – at civic amenity sites, at retail stores when purchasing a new one, and at free WEEE Ireland collection days that take place at different locations every weekend.
For details on collection points near you please visit the WEEE Ireland website www.recyclefree.ie

http://www.saorview.ie/make-the-switch/step-3-choose-equipment/

http://www.facebook.com/WEEEIreland/posts/105269482962983

Frynge

Hotel i work in had to replace over 80 tvs but had over 100 to get rid of. Where they bought the new tvs agreed to deliver new tvs and take all the old ones away. They are only obliged to take away the same number you buy. That was the deciding factor in buying from there. I'm sure the shop still made a tidy profit from the near €20k

Antenna

ftlnn wrote: »

Per say in the situation where a hotel was going to upgrade all of their TV's to be compatible? So if you found yourself with 100 of these TV's what would their value be? Or are they simply consigned to the dump?

Rather than replace every TV a lot of hotels would be now using four STBs into modulators to feed the aerial distribution to supply existing TVs with RTE/TV3/TG4 (likely not bother introducing the new channels though). They likely would already have been doing this with the main FTA satellite channels.

fergal.b

Maybe they end up here :mad:

Or here.