The dead 55-inch in the game room has exactly zero legal curb options in Dallas — electronics are banned from both the roll cart and the bulk week. What's left: haul it yourself to a city disposal site (free, if it fits in your car), a manufacturer or retailer program, or a flat pickup — TVs $62–$73, carried from any room — routed to a certified e-waste recycler.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →| Route | Cost | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| City disposal site (self-haul) | Free | You transport it — fine for a laptop, a two-person wrestle for a big TV |
| Manufacturer take-back | Free | Mail-back boxes and drop-offs under Texas recycling law; slow, size-limited |
| Retailer programs / trade-in | Free–credit | Working devices mostly; store policies vary and change |
| Flat pickup | TVs $62–$73, see list | None beyond the price — any room, any size, certified recycler downstream |
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| TV — under 32" / 32–55" / large & projection | $62 / $68 / $73 |
| Monitor | $58 |
| Desktop computer | $62 |
| Printer (small) | $58 |
| Stereo / large speaker | $70 / $57 |
| Microwave | $40 |
| Mixed box of small electronics | $77 |
$75 minimum per pickup — so a lone microwave bills at the minimum, while a TV + the junk-drawer electronics box rides the same trip efficiently. Everything routes to certified e-waste processing; nothing goes curbside.
Factory-reset phones and tablets, sign out of everything, and for computers holding anything sensitive, pull the drive — it's one screwdriver and five minutes, and then the recycling question contains no data question. Certified processors shred storage media, but the cheapest security is the drive in your desk drawer.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →No — electronics of every kind (TVs, computers, monitors, stereos, microwaves) are on Dallas's excluded list for both roll-cart and brush-and-bulky collection. The city's own answer is self-hauling to one of its disposal sites. A TV in the bulk pile is a non-compliant set-out: usually collected, then billed at $60 per 5 cubic yards with citations possible.
Flat by size with pickup: under-32-inch TVs $62, mid-size $68, large or projection sets $73 — carried out from any room and routed to a certified e-waste recycler. Monitors are $58, desktop towers $62, small printers $58, stereos $52, microwaves $30, and a mixed box of small electronics hauls for $77.
Yes, if you do the hauling: the city accepts electronics at its disposal sites, manufacturers run mail-back and drop-off programs under Texas's recycling laws, and some retailers take trade-ins or accept old devices in-store. All free, all requiring you to transport the device. The flat pickup exists for the 65-inch TV that doesn't fit in a sedan, the office's worth of dead equipment, and the cleanout where electronics are one stream among many.
Wipe it. Sign out of accounts, run a factory reset, and for computers with sensitive data consider pulling the drive entirely — a $10 screwdriver job that removes the question. Certified recyclers shred storage media, but your data hygiene shouldn't depend on someone else's process.