What do you do with that television set after the digital conversion in February?
You can buy a converter box, but many people are buying digital sets as prices on those drop.
That’s going to create a mountain of obsolete TVs come this spring.
Now Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune is planning a television recycling program.
The county’s Solid Waste Management District will host the event sometime in Spring 2009. The district department will reveal the details in January.
Portune says there’s no choice because federal law requires television broadcasts to be all digital beginning February 17, 2009.
"The new federal regulations will likely produce a flood of old television sets becoming trash inundating our landfills,” he says, “despite the fact that each old analog TV contains valuable recyclable material that can be put to a higher and better use.”
The program goes hand in hand with the Solid Waste Management District’s goal of the county becoming a zero-waste producing community.
