If you guys have electronics recycling around here, I advocate handing off the monitor to the electronics recyclers. They'll know the best disposal methods for all parts of the monitor. (Assuming they aren't shipping it off to a horrific dystopian scrap-town in China, as some so-called "recyclers" have been known to do.) Monitors and other electronics are full of heavy metals, like lead and cadmium, and absolutely do not belong in landfills or incinerators, if it can be at all avoided.
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