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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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the thin long boards with the gold laminate can be scrapped. Also the diffuser/polarizer in the screen (the plastic sheets on/in the screen) can be used to make neat looking lamps with led strips. Goodwill is anther idea as marked141 stated

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.

The two trash companies in my area accept CRTs, plastics or screens in the trash. I put maybe 4 or 5 gutted CRT TVs in my trash bin a month and dozens of flat screens, you don't need to over complicate things. Its always fun when you toss a 28+ inch CRT TV in the trash bin and hear it pop in the trash truck too.

And before anyone says lead or other dangerous stuff in a a CRT, that's only a thing in pre 72ish black and weight CRTs and the lead is a very small amount and only found near the yoke inside the glass of the CRT. I used to repair CRTs back in the day they are nowhere at dangerous as folks seem too say, and wile I"m at it, PSUs and ac adapters do not hold 10 of 1000s of volts when powered off or even on for that matter.

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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Implosion protection is not a thing in CRTs of any age TBH sure some of better but they all go poof/pop when they crack. bleed restorer on the flyback is not needed TBH, just pull the power plug on the tv and wait a few minutes as is common since when pulling apart anything electronic, As for the phosphorus, that stuff is used in fireworks and few other things... why is phosphorus bad in a CRT but ok to breath in from fireworks... or oooor in our pee/bones and many of the foods we eat?

Folks over complicate safety all to much, I could sworn the last set of warning labels we got at work came in the package with its own warning label on it.

But the edges and the aluminum foil in LCDs, that stuff, keep it away from me, it cuts me finngys all up.

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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