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Your Flat screen tv and e-waste
Expanding the research and development of electronics has an unfortunate downside. According to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, seventy per cent of all heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury in landfills in the United States comes from electronic waste. This is despite the fact that electronic waste makes up only two per cent of the total waste volume. Worldwide, twenty to fifty million metric tonnes of electronic waste or “e-waste” is generated each year.
Determining the precise environmental effects from e-waste can be difficult, but given the known detrimental consequences of heavy metals, this does not bode well for environmental conditions. Some of the most popular electronics products today are flat screen televisions. Many flat screen TVs are lit from behind with florescent light bulbs, which contain mercury. In addition, the flat screen liquid crystal display or LCD itself can contain toxic materials, such as arsenic, a well-known poisonous substance.
Publicizing these facts has apparently done little to awaken consumers to the advantages of recycling, which eliminates heavy metal build-up in landfills. In the United Kingdom, an estimated one million tonnes of e-waste are generated per year. Unfortunately, according to a survey by computer manufacturer Dell, the UK has the lowest electronic waste recycling rate in Western Europe.
Fortunately, there are things that consumers can do to “green” their flat screen televisions. Most major LCD manufacturers have begun switching to light-emitting diodes or LEDs to light their LCD displays. LEDs have their toxic materials as well, however. A solution invented by two Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University may soon remove this problem for LEDs permanently.
Using nanotechnology, Nadav Amdursky and Gil Rosenman are “growing” their own lights using self-assembled peptide nanotubes. The chemistry of these organic lights is based on carbon, making them much more environmentally-friendly. The reason for this is that the material they invented is essentially biological. Unlike conventional engineered LEDs, their LEDs have a nano-based architecture, which makes them easy to integrate into existing technology at minimal cost. The light generated is virtually indistinguishable from the light emitted by other LEDs.
This applies both to existing technologies and products, such as 3d tv and panasonic lcd tv, but future designs, as well. Nanotechnology promises to make the future of electronics much more environmentally friendly; best of all, this can be done at low cost to world economies. Greening flat screen TVs is now a reality.
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Base for large screen TV?
We bought a large screen TV (not flat in the back) and a cheap black and clear plastic base that it sits on. The base has two holes in it because the TV has (2) one inch prongs that fit into it for stability. The base is very ugly and I want to know if anyone knows where I can buy a wood base at a reasonable price? And do these bases have holes in them to accommodate my TV? Does anyone else have this problem?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this question.
If you HATE THE BASE…look for Big Bolt HOLES on the back of your TV….if so, then it should be a
“mount on the wall” unit….
Other than that you can MAYBE build your own pedestal….
OR Remove the plastic from the base and put another material on it….
SAFER YET……just Repaint the base the way you want it….
You just want to make your TV secure no matter what choice you make. You don’t want the screen getting smashed because of some flimsy jury rigging….
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