What hazardous materials are in LED backlit LCD screens?

The context of the question is a 75" samy LED lit LCD where the panel was broken in shipment. Vendor replaced the TV but did not take back the broken one. They told us to pitch it.

I'm planning to take the boards out since they're good. But what should I do with the panel itself? It seems like something we could pitch in the dumpster since I can't think of any toxic or hazardous material in the panel.

A plasma, CRT, or florescent LCD would be different. Those would have to go to a recycler.

Am I wrong? Is an LED LCD toxic/hazardous waste?

Is there a RoHS logo somewhere on the back of it?

Why don't you take it to your town's transfer station? They typically have an electronic recycling there.

In the old days, LEDs had very small amounts of mercury in them. But I doubt they do any more.

KOT

I once recycled one of those. I found out later from my local repair company that I could have gotten a free panel that was replaced under warranty because it had a handful of pixels bad. Check with your local service friends and hang onto it for a little while. You might get lucky.

I would love to have had a 75 inch TV with six or seven bad pixels for free.

Check your local laws.. In Colorado we can't dispose of any electronics in the trash period, everything has to go to a recycler or collection depot.

My OCD would fixate on those 7 bad pixels and I would not see the other 8,847,353 ones.

half the screen is dead. cracked / fubar'd

I wish there was some way to salvage the TV.

I completely understand that the state / local gov't may require something like this to be "recycled". They also "require" me to recycle my green waste (lawn clippings, landscape waste) but they do not provide my address with greenery pickup (they do elsewhere in the city) So I (and my neighbors) are supposed to bring our green waste to the landfill. Yah right, it goes in the trash.

I'm just curious if there really is anything in an LED screen that is hazardous. I think the regulation is more for saving landfill space than it is keeping hazmat out of the dump.

it is more then just that. In the end all garbage ends in the landfill no matter how it gets there.

Where I live
green waste (municipal): grass clippings, hedge trimmings, leaves in the fall, fruits from fruit trees... are turned into compost that the city uses and saves on fertilizer.

brown waste (municipal): tree branches, Christmas trees.... are shredded into mulch.

electronics (provincial): taken apart hazardous material treated accordingly, metals/plastic/glass recycled the rest dump.