I have an bust flatscreen telly. What to do with it?

The local place that refurbishes electronics for resale for charity cannot use it.

The recycling centre is a couple of miles away with no bus route so tricky to get it to (won’t fit in the bike trailer) and anyway is it just going to end up as waste in a third world country?

Landfill bin seems a waste

Any ideas?

Man who doesn’t need car in needs car shocker!

Do you know anyone with a hotel window you could borrow?

Stick it on ebay, facebook or freecycle. Someone will want it (and collect it)

no bus route

Brilliant 😆

How bust is it?

Stick it on ebay, facebook or freecycle. Someone will want it (and collect it)

This, although it will probably end up in landfill as modern TVs are usually very hard to fix despite people thinking they will be able to.

If it’s the screen and not the backlight that’s broken and it’s reasonably new you can make cool natural light panels with them – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4

dammit beaten to it 🙂

Flat screen TVs don’t end up in landfill. If you take it to your local recycling place it’ll go to one of the specialist recycling plants and dismantled, recycling any metals etc and disposing of any hazardous waste as appropriate.
Remember a lot of electrical retailers and DIY stores act as WEEE recycling collection points so if you ask nicely they might take it for you if you have one close by.

fix it!

Fixed lots of TVs. 9/10 it has been the capacitors in the power supply. 20p fix.

Screen works fine. Power supply is failing I think. Been repaired once already.

I thought a lot of electronics that are supposedly recycled end up shipped to third world counties for dismantling where they often end up as hazardous waste / pollutants?

Can’t you balance it on the rear seat and bars of the tandem? Cycle it to be recycled.

Get a taxi to your local recycling place.
Y’kmow, with all that money you saved from not buying a car. 🙂

Serious answer- borrow a bike trailer?

How bourgoius was you telly that it can’t be strapped to the bike trailer ?

Very – I got it secondhand and bust 10 years ago and had it repaired. It could be strapped onto the bike trailer but will not fit in it

Wait 15 years and take it on the tram?

Lob it over the fence into next door’s garden. Sorted.

Lob it over the fence into next door’s garden. Sorted.

Errmmm – I live in an attic flat. I don’t think I am rock and roll enough to lob it out of a window 70′ up onto a busy street.

Having a working telly is just a lifestyle choice. Leave it sat there and read books instead.

So it’s broke. Strap it to the trailer taken it to the recycling center.

wait until friends with a car come and visit?

“on your way home you couldnt just tip this for me could you please?”

Pay the council £5 for a bulky waste collection.

Or get a bigger bike trailer.

Just leave it outside your house, or better still outside someone’s else’s house, don’t worry someone else will get sick of the sight of it and take it on their next visit to the tip

** seems to be the norm round here 😤

The majority of you route is along cyclepath If I’m correct. I would strap some cardboard to the tv that will be in contact with the ground and drag the tv behind the bike like a sled. You’ll get more strange looks than you usually might, but I’ve done similar with success in the past. Sticking it in an old cardboard bike box might make this easier.

Smash it into very, very small pieces and take it bit by bit?

Alternatively, buy a new telly from a company that will take away the old one.

buy a new telly

Or just wait until his namesake is in Number 10 and collect a free one!

Or was that owls rather than tellies?

Errmmm – I live in an attic flat. I don’t think I am rock and roll enough to lob it out of a window 70′ up onto a busy street.

Just remember you didn’t choose it, the rock and roll car free life chose you.

But yea, seriously, if it’s broken what’s the problem with strapping it to the top of the trailer, worst case it gets a bit more broken (maybe with a bit of card taped over the screen to keep it intact when smashed).

I was really hoping for some suggestion for a way i would not be turned into waste! Or some good comedy!

I might try freecycle or gumtree

To be fair, i got £15 for a w*nkered panasonic plasma a few years back. The guy strips them and uses the good parts to fix others. Win win
Might get a couple of quid for the remote too

I was really hoping for some suggestion for a way i would not be turned into waste!

If you buy another it will eventually break and be waste. Why not keep this one, attach a picture to the front (you could even draw your own) and sit and look at that? Win win.

This is never, ever, ever, going to come up in any thread about public transport vs cars.

Nope.

No way José.

A friendly man in van type will take it to the tip * for him . He doesn’t need a car.

*By tip I mean fly tip in the nearest layby…..by which time he will have regretted Dymo labeling all his belongings…..o wait that was Arnold j Rimmer.

This is never, ever, ever, going to come up in any thread about public transport vs cars.

Nope.

No way José.

In fairness a tv will likely last 15+ years, not really worth having a car for just that. Whilst uncommon trips that would be easier solved by using a car would be more frequent, nobody suggesting many can survive without a car have said it’s always easy.

An opportunity to taunt Tj I can somewhat understand however ; )

Wait ’til it’s dark
Anonymously report suspicious activity
Don a hoody
Carry telly down the road
Wait for the cops to accost you
They’ll put it in evidence
It’s their problem now
Ask to see their policy on recycling unclaimed property
Have a new cause to champion.

Brilliant Joat!

Scotroutes – really? I would never have guessed

Make sure your insurance covers accidental damage. Put a hammer through the screen. Woops it broke while hanging this mirror!
New TV for the cost of excess. Stick it on ebay for new.

I already have the new to me TV

I’ll take a pic as it goes to the dump on my trailer! I was hoping that something could be done with it bar chucking it away

I would take it off your hands, but I only have a bicycle and a skateboard. I had to get a very small telly for this very reason.

I’ll take it, can you deliver?

I was hoping that something could be done with it bar chucking it away

Did you watch that video I posted?