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Tampa Plans Analog TV Collection For Saturday

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Published: January 9, 2009

Ready to replace your television? Drop it off Saturday at the first Electronics Collection Day at the city's Solid Waste Department.

The department organized the special disposal day in preparation of the upcoming FCC requirement that all televisions run a digital signal by Feb. 17. Residents can drop off televisions and computers for safe disposal from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 4010 W. Spruce St. Drive behind the main building.

All-digital broadcasting will free up frequencies for public-safety communications as well as offer consumers more programming options, officials say. Problem is, from a waste standpoint, some old televisions are environmentally hazardous.

Before there were plasma screen and liquid crystal display tubes, televisions used cathode ray tubes, which store a large amount of lead, officials say. Roughly 20 percent of CRTs are comprised of lead, equivalent to four to eight pounds per unit.

Another Electronics Collection Day is scheduled for April 25.

For information about the collection, call the department at (813) 348-1111 or go to www.tampagov.net/solidwaste and click on "Electronics-Only Collection Day."

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