TV and electronics disposal in Orlando

The short answer

Screens and electronics are flat-priced by size:

The per-visit minimum is $75, so a single 40-inch TV at $62 books as a $75 visit. A 65-inch TV and its stand is $73 + $96 = $169.

Why a TV should not go to the curb here

Electronics are handled separately from household trash almost everywhere in this metro, and most collection routes will simply leave a television sitting on your grass. Check your city or county solid-waste page for the current electronics arrangement before you drag one out.

Then there is the Orlando-specific reason: rain. A flat-screen left at a Conway or Azalea Park curb on a Monday gets a thunderstorm on Monday afternoon. What was a repairable or recyclable unit is now a cracked panel full of water, and a broken screen face-down on a verge is a hazard to the kids who walk past it. In a metro with near-daily summer storms, "I'll leave it out for a few days" is never a plan.

Old CRTs still turn up constantly

Every garage cleanout in Ocoee, Union Park or Pine Hills seems to surface a tube TV that has been behind the shelving since the last decade. They are far heavier than they look, the glass is genuinely dangerous when it breaks, and most casual routes will not take them.

They are priced the same as any TV under 42 inches at $62. The important part is not dropping one. Two people, low lift, and out to the truck — which is exactly why the flat price exists.

Before anything leaves the house

• Wipe your data. Smart TVs hold accounts and passwords. Factory-reset it. Same for streaming sticks left in the HDMI port, which is the single most commonly forgotten item.
• Pull the drives from old desktops and laptops if the data matters to you, or ask for the machine to be handled accordingly.
• Check the mount. Half the TVs in this city are on a wall bracket. Unbolting it is a two-minute job before the crew arrives, and it is not something to be doing while someone holds a 70-inch panel.
• Batteries out of remotes and UPS units.

The Orlando lanai TV

A local category of its own. Half the pool decks in Hunter's Creek, Meadow Woods and Winter Springs have an outdoor screen under the cage, and unless it was a genuine outdoor-rated unit it does not survive. Humidity gets inside the housing, the corner of the panel grays out, and one summer later it is dead.

Same flat price as any indoor screen. Mention that it is mounted under a lanai cage so the crew brings the right tools and does not have to improvise around a screen panel.

Office and home-office clearouts

Orlando has a heavy contractor and creative freelance population — Full Sail alumni around Winter Park and Maitland, simulation and defense contractors out towards Research Park near UCF, and a large remote workforce. Home offices here turn over a lot of hardware.

A standard home office going in one visit — desk, office chair, two monitors and a box of cables — is $83 + $61 + $58 + $58 + $77 = $337. Compare that against a quarter truck at $241 and you would be quoted $241.

What happens to it

Working electronics with genuine life left are routed to reuse where a local outlet takes them. Everything else goes to the electronics stream rather than into general household waste, because that is what the material requires.

That handling is inside the flat price. There is no recycling surcharge, no per-pound electronics fee, and no separate charge for a screen versus a chair.

Booking it

Tell us the screen size, whether it is wall-mounted, and what floor it is on. You get the flat number back before anyone drives out.

If you are pairing it with a new TV delivery, book the removal for the same morning. In this climate the old panel should never spend a night outside, and in an HOA subdivision it should not spend an hour at the curb.

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