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May 26, 2009
According to this articlet in The Age there is not a unified television recycling program even though two million old TVs estimated to be offloaded annually to make room for flat screen technology and there is the looming 2010 switchover from analogue to digital. Consequently, millions of old televisions, with poisonous cargo of almost 2kgs of lead and other heavy metals, are finding their way into Australian landfills each year, rather than being recycled.
James Good, Swamp TV, Miama, 2007
Instead of the cost of recycling falling to the television manufacturers as it does in other countries, the financial and logistical burden rests largely on local governments who must either transport the thousands of discarded or dumped televisions to landfill or, in rare cases, take matters into their own hands by establishing expensive recycling schemes.
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