Hennepin County, Dakota County, and Washington county all have drop-off facilities for electronic equipment that are FREE for residents. Here's a site that list most of them:

http://www.greenguardian.com/residents/throw-buy/materials-name/electronics-tvs-computers

The Washington county facility offers free hazardous materials drop-off for residents of
Washington, Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, and Ramsey counties. Who are these people who can't find anywhere to dispose of their electronic equipment?

As a Hennipin county resident I have been using the Bloomington drop-off facility for years. The information about the other counties took me less that 3 minutes to find on the internet. When I saw the first event hosted at the Mall of America I couldn't believe it. Obviously there are a lot of people with old electronic equipment with very bad search engine skills or maybe they are just idiots (most likely both). The computer you are sitting at is one of the most powerful reasearch tools ever devised yet most people do nothing more that search YouTube for moronic video clips and stupid captioned photos to email their friends and co-workers. when it comes to something improtant such as how to properly dispose of your PCB's, CRT's, and other haserdous waste they seem to have no clue how to find that information. Google is your friend.

I always thought idiots were people who could not spell "hazardous" or "important." Silly me. Perhaps I am confusing idiots with those who need to flame others (and the easiest targets) in order to prop up their own flagging self-image.