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I have a growing collection of the LCD panels from scrapped monitors. It is just the liquid panel - all other components have been stripped and recycled (metal, lighting, plexi, inverter, boards, etc). Does anyone have any leads for recycling or scrapping just the LCD panel?

Thanks in advance!

I don't know if they actually appreciate me doing it but Goodwill has an agreement with Dell to recycle monitors... I will get a bunch of the LCDs together and box them up to drop off. Not sure every goodwill does it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's the Dell Reconnect program.

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I'm in this same boat too. I haven't broken down my panel assemblies yet, but all the instances I have heard of people taking the actual crystal panel either don't any more, or only do it by the truckload, with no firsthand knowledge of who actually does it.

It has me tempted to start.... "disappearing" them.

Please, Please, PLEASE

if you have screens, LCDs, monitors, CRTs. DO NOT THROW THEM OUT.

Every state has a recycle program or dump around the area you have to discover or learn about.

Most likely you will have to pay to dispose of them.

IMO, if you are not a larger scale operation or E-waste management, do not break down monitors or TVs. You will be left with an amount of waste you cannot handle or it will go places it shouldn't and not be taken care of correctly. Plastics, screens, etcetera.

As Marked141 stated, Goodwill and your local town or state "clean-ups" ( which usually occur once or twice a year for cities) have a spring or summer routine clean up for an electronic drop-off. Free***

With silver reaching new heights and still very high compared to the drop, mylars might be a thing of recovery again.

I purchase gaylords or larger shipping boxes from local businesses to house my screen panels and mylars til I have the quantity to turn in to a company or have a pick-up scheduled.

Remember, half this side of business is disassembling these items to recycle-reuse-and keep out the landfills; not just the payouts and precious metals.

If you don't know what your doing or how to handle different materials, anything can be dangerous.
The leaded glass isn't really all that dangerous from what I understand because the lead doesn't leach out of the glass like it might from a pewter plate. But...older models without implosion protection could hurt you from sharp flying glass. Older models without a bleed on the flyback tranformers would be the ones to worry about an electrical discharge. Then the phosphorus in the screen if you decided to pick up a broken monitor, get cuts on your hands and then touch all the phosphorus. Shouldn't breath too much of that either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the topic is LCDs...which can be bad too, don't want to get a cut with a broken edge of one if those.

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If you drink too much water that can be bad for you...

Again, if you don't know what you're doing or how to handle certain things, anything can be dangerous.

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CRTs contain Cadmium , Barium, Lead and Mercury. PCBs, about the same, especially depending on specifics and application. All of which are HIGHLY poisonous to humans.

If you don't know or are not educated yourself; You must be careful or you will harm yourself.

I believe they didn't completely phase out using these materials til 2010 and before. Be careful

Looks like Thomas Electronics still uses barium https://www.thomaselectronics.com/crt-r ... endations/ and says it's common practice. Barium Oxide, BaO, baria, is harmful to skin and can cause irritation if swallowed (I doubt anyone is swallowing bits of broken CRTs though). :P Large enough quantities can lead to death.

I misspoke when I said phosphorous, it's phosphors which contain any number of compounds:
https://www.phosphor-technology.com/crt-phosphors/ not that phosphorus doesn't have is own health risks in quantity.

So...the point isn't that you can't possibly handle a CRT or dismantle it or even break it. You just have to be aware that there are some risks, however slight. Also, Lostinlodos can probably expound on this better than I can, having this site hosted by a business, there's probably a level of liability involved that they don't want to be responsible for. Just because I have handled CRTs and removed everything from a bulb and broken the vacuum doesn't mean Boardsort wants a conversation about it (at the very least without acknowledging there are risks) cause there's inevitably someone who will read it and blame Boardsort after they go around bashing in CRTs carelessly and end up finding one that implodes just right to throw glass back at them or who decides to break them all in their basement and when they go to clean up, breath all the dust with various compounds for lack of a respirator.

Again, if you don't know what you're doing or how to handle certain things, anything can be dangerous.

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