TV and Electronics Disposal
Old TVs, monitors and the heap of electronics nobody knows what to do with.
What this covers
- flat screen and old tube televisions
- computers, monitors, printers and networking gear
- stereo equipment, speakers and cable boxes
- office electronics from a clearout
- the drawer of cables, chargers and remotes
What this job is actually like
Electronics are the category where the rules moved and nobody sent a notice, and the line they moved to is the screen. An old tube television and the flat screen that replaced it are not the same object in different dimensions. A tube set is mostly leaded glass, weighs several times what a flat screen of the same size does, and is handled as its own kind of waste almost everywhere because of what is in that glass. It's also a two person lift with no good handholds, and it's usually sitting somewhere it has to come back out of. That's why the television nobody wants is always the heavy one. The rest of a household's electronics are far easier and travel as a group: computers, printers, stereo gear, cable boxes and the drawer of chargers nobody has opened since the last move. So the useful thing to work out before calling isn't how many boxes there are. It's how many screens, and which kind.
Worth sorting out before the day
- Say how many screens and what kind, tube or flat. That is the detail that decides how they are handled.
- Wipe anything with your data on it before it leaves the house. Clearing a hard drive isn't part of the job.
- Pull the loose batteries out and put them in their own bag. Batteries aren't electronics as far as disposal goes, and a swollen lithium one is a fire waiting to happen in the back of a trailer.
- Fluorescent tubes and old bulbs go their own way too, so set those aside rather than boxing them in with the monitors. They break, and what's inside them isn't something you want loose.
How the job runs
Point at the pile. The tube televisions and old computer monitors get set apart from the flat screens as we load, because around here those two are different problems rather than the same one in different sizes.
What moves the price
- how many pieces, since electronics are handled one at a time rather than by the load
- whether the screens are tube or flat, which changes what happens to them
- how far out the pickup is
- whether it's a household drawer or an office full of equipment
Estimates are free, and you get the number before anything starts.
Common questions
Why is an old tube TV so hard to get rid of?
Mostly because of the glass. A cathode ray tube is largely leaded glass, so the set gets handled as its own kind of waste rather than going in with general junk, and the weight comes on top of that. A big tube television is a two person lift with nowhere good to hold it, down whatever stairs it went up years ago. None of that makes it impossible. It just makes it a different job than carrying out a flat screen, and it explains why it has been in the spare room since the last one arrived.
Is a flat screen any easier?
Considerably. It's lighter, it's a one person carry in most sizes, and it isn't the awkward shape a tube set is. The early flat panels have a quirk of their own, because the lamps behind the screen in those contain mercury, so they're still handled as electronics rather than as general junk. Either way, say how many screens are going and roughly what size. That's the part that decides the job.
Can electronics go in with the rest of the junk?
They can come out on the same visit. They just don't leave in the same stream, so they get set apart as we load, along with the batteries and the light bulbs, which aren't electronics at all as far as disposal goes and cause more trouble than the televisions do. If you're clearing an office rather than a drawer, say so on the call. A room of monitors and desktop towers is a different proposition from a household's worth of it.
Where this is available
We cover electronics disposal across the whole service area, from Floyd County out to about fifty miles. How quickly we can get to you depends mostly on the distance, so the closer towns tend to be same-day or next-day and the far edge gets scheduled.
Floyd County, GA
Bartow County, GA
Polk County, GA
Chattooga County, GA
Gordon County, GA
Paulding County, GA
Cobb County, GA
Haralson County, GA
Walker County, GA
Catoosa County, GA
Cherokee County, GA
Carroll County, GA
Whitfield County, GA
Pickens County, GA
Murray County, GA
Douglas County, GA
Cherokee County, AL
Calhoun County, AL
DeKalb County, AL
Ready when you are
Tell us what you've got. You'll get a straight answer and a price.