KSFY-TV: New Life For Your Old TV
Filed under: Earth 911 - July 7, 2008
By Drew Sandholm
As required by U.S. law, television stations will broadcast on a digital signal only. That means many of you will be tossing out your older, analog set. KSFY explores e-cycling options.
In Sioux Falls, Millennium Recycling hosts free electronics recycling from eight until noon on the following dates:
- Saturday, August 9, 2008
- Saturday, September 13, 2008
- Saturday, October 11, 2008
- Saturday, November 8, 2008
- Saturday, December 13, 2008
Vince Anderson of Millennium Recycling says the number of older sets dropped off has doubled in just a few years. They take thousands of pounds of sets every month, but none of it goes to waste.
“Everything can be recycled and other people’s junk is other people’s gold,” said Anderson. Everything a television is made of — plastic, wood, copper, metal, and even the wires are recycled at Millennium or sent to another location for recycling.
These helpful links have information about recycling old TV sets outside Sioux Falls:
- At Earth911, you can search by your zip code to find a recycling location near you.
- The Electronic Industries Alliance has a state-by-state list of recycling resources.