Check with your local dumpster providers. There are two in our area that do e-waste recycling. We stockpile throughout the year. Then once a year we have them drop off a dumpster. We fill it up and they take it away.

Our local Best Buy has an electronics drop-off, and the city has a couple around town. It's PC to be green around here, so there are several E-waste disposal opportunities.

Used AVRs, re-purposed speakers, and TVs usually are given away to guys in other trades who we work with pretty regularly.

Either give them away or pay for the disposal. As SBsmarthomes said. Cost of doing business

Something else that seems to work. At least for my brother in law.

Anything he puts out in his front yard, near the street, get taken within a day.

Ratty sofa? Gone in less than one hour. Non working TV, 2 hours tops...

This.

I typically give decent gear away to other trades, I keep a few older, decent AVRs, speakers and bluray players around to give to friends/family to use in garages, shops and the like. The rest of the stuff that is functional gets donated or dropped off as E-waste. I have a family member who is big in a local church, they hold electronics recycling events a couple times a year so I drop off over there.

Or if it is newer then what I have and still functional, I rotate it into my own house. I don't mind being a generation or two back on electronics if I get them for free. Honestly, I hate spending money on gear for myself.

In my area the municipal electronics recycle days have been discontinued because of some perceived liability risk. BestBuy will accept electronics and CRT's up to 27", but don't show up with a van full of stuff. We have some local businesses that will accept anything with a power cord unless there is a CRT attached. There is usually a charge for CRT's if they are accepted. One company is grumpy about accepting cassette decks and other small stuff claiming that there is very little value relative to the cost of disassembly. Staples will accept electronics that seem like something they would sell.

There are some small, probably one or two man shops that will selectively accept electronics items. There is a charge for CRT's. One might net a small amount of money for other items.

It's expensive to recycle alkaline cells. I'd need to purchase a box, then return it to a recycle center. There is a large scale process that nets a small positive cash flow when recycling alkaline cells. Unfortunately, it can't really cover shipping costs to the processing center. In Europe the battery retailers must accept spent alkaline batteries for recycle. In the current US business/political environment, this sort of law would not be enacted.

Also, in my area, there are services similar to 1-800-Got-Junk that charge by the truckload or fraction. (warning: some crews achieve a very low packing density) They'll make just anything disappear and claim to dispose of it responsibly.

I like it!

Best Buy doesn't have bins at the entrance for batteries?

One option is to leave it in the customers garage.

The bins that I’ve seen specify rechargeable batteries.

I’m in an ultra premium market. Most don’t even take care of their own trash let alone trying to remove a tv. We take the trash as well.

Thanks everyone! Found a scrap yard to take the AVRs and cables. Bestbuy will take the TVs for $25 a piece.

I normally pawn off things but I’ve pretty much exhausted all of them!

I used to donate the stuff to a domestic violence shelter if it worked.  if it didn't, I'd just give it to my neighbor to take to the junk/scrap yard.

P.S- Although I liked giving stuff to the shelter, it was a real PITA. We weren't allowed in the building because of the women, then there wouldn't necessarily be anyone available that had the ability to lift a TV (i.e- Sony Wega) if it were me, I'd think twice about that again....

Maybe a veterans shelter?

Around here, if you list something on Craigslist as "free" someone will take it. It doesn't even matter what it is.

Goodwill is an official ewaste facility, just dont roll in with a trailer full,
Start taking in a few items at a time and you will get there.
I never bring anything home for that reason,its the clients responsibility.

Staples will take up to 10 items a day for free, including batteries. But no TV's.