Piccolo's law on trash.

Piccolo's Law on Trash reads: The liklihood of someone throwing something away properly is in direct proportion of how convenient it is to do so.

If you want to get rid of a busted flat screen TV and all you have to do is put it out with the recyclables on trash day than that's pretty much what everyone will do. It's simple.

When the way to get rid of an old flatscreen becomes a nightmare like the following scenario then what's going to happen?

1. Send for a special padded box. $126.50.

2. Pack said TV into box and drop off at the collection depot 374 miles away from home and pay a $437.95 Hazamat fee, a shipping to the recycling center charge of $396.34.

3.  $10.00 notary fee to insure the paperwork is valid. Bring a Real ID for this one.

4. Drive another 374 miles to get back home.

OR

Just dump the damned thing in a ravine somewhere after dark.

Pick one.

You may then sit down and tune into the MSM and hear the terrible tale of why the Grand Canyon has been filled up with flatscreen TVs and hear the Sierra Club (or whoever) wondering in total confusion why people don't recycle things properly.

Update. I just read where someplace is willing to take flatscreens for $30 each.

Job opportunity: 

Of course that means anyone  with a pickup truck can under bid them by five bucks, pick up a pretty good handful of cash and then quietly dump the whole truckload into a ravine somewhere.

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