Environmental Burden of Going Digital
“FCC Says New TVs Must Be Digital by ‘07” [Aug. 9] did not draw attention to the hazardous electronic waste problem connected to the disposal of analog-based TVs.
Nearly a billion TVs have been sent to the hazardous waste graveyard. The environmental burden of disposing of old computers just made national news because California passed a law to keep this toxic electronics waste out of our landfills.
This FCC decision now places an unwarranted financial and hazardous waste burden on the public to help broadcasters make this electronic conversion.
Kate Lutz
Venice
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