Donors can bring their tv sets to any Goodwill Store & Donation Center in southeastern Wisconsin now. On February 1, metropolitan Chicago residents will be able to do the same at their local Goodwill Store & Donation Centers.
 
“Goodwill has been researching alternatives for our donors who have been clamoring for us to accept televisions, we are pleased that this partnership now allows us to make it easy and convenient for our supporters who are already coming here to donate,” said Vicki Holschuh, vice president, Retail Services.

Goodwill will be selling working televisions in their stores, and CRT Processing will handle and process any nonworking or unsold sets.

These efforts follow last July when Goodwill joined with Dell in recycling old computer equipment at no cost to consumers. “Computer recycling really took off last year with 786 thousand pounds being recycled in the last quarter of 2009,” said Holschuh.