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Old TVs, monitors, and computers are "e-waste". They contain materials that shouldn't go in a landfill, and many older TVs are heavy and awkward to move. Here's how to get rid of them responsibly.
Where can I take a TV to recycle it?
Salt Lake County residents have a few options. The County Health Department runs e-waste recycling year round at its collection facilities, and the hazardous waste area at the Salt Lake Valley Landfill accepts televisions. Salt Lake City has Call 2 Haul, and West Valley City runs a drop-off event once a year.
All of those need you to lift the set, fit it in a car, and get there inside their opening hours, which for a large or wall-mounted TV is the part that stops most people. We collect from the room it is in, take the mount off the wall if there is one, and handle the rest.
Does Best Buy charge to recycle a TV?
Yes, around $30 per television, which covers handling the leaded glass and other hazardous components. Reasonable if you are already going and the set is small enough to carry. It does not help with a console TV, a wall mount, or anything upstairs.
Can I just put a TV in the bin?
No. Curbside collection will not take one, and a television is not something you want in general waste anyway. Older CRT sets contain several pounds of leaded glass, and flat screens contain mercury in the backlighting. Both need separating rather than crushing.
What counts as e-waste?
The working rule is simple: if it has a circuit board or a battery, it is e-waste. That covers televisions and monitors, desktops and laptops, printers, phones and tablets, games consoles, stereo equipment, microwaves and most small kitchen appliances.
When is it worth paying someone?
Most of the time, honestly. A rear-projection or console set is a genuine two-person lift and often will not go down a staircase without coming apart. A wall-mounted screen has to come off its bracket first. A house clearance means the TV is one item among many and gets taken in the same load at no extra trip. An office refit means a stack of monitors and towers that was never going in a car.
We take it from wherever it is, in one visit, with a firm price agreed beforehand.
Why electronics can't go in the trash
TVs, monitors and other electronics contain materials that aren't allowed in regular landfill trash, and older tube TVs are especially heavy and fragile. Before you recycle anything that stored data. A computer, an old phone, a smart TV. Sign out of accounts and wipe or factory-reset it. From there, we'll take the e-waste off your hands and route it to proper electronics recyclers so it's handled responsibly instead of ending up in the dump.
Serving the Salt Lake & Utah valleys
Junk-A-Saurus is based in Draper and hauls across both valleys, including Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan and Riverton in the Salt Lake Valley, plus Lehi, American Fork, Lindon and Orem down in the Utah Valley. Wherever you are, you get the same deal: a free, upfront quote, all the lifting and loading handled, and same-day service whenever we can fit you in. Call or text 801-516-9569 and we'll get you on the schedule.