FEWER than 1 per cent of old television sets are being recycled and about 7 million of them will end up in landfill over the next five years as Australia switches to digital TV, a new report has found.The government's ''digital tracker'' reports show a recycling rate of 73 per cent for old TVs, but most of that figure actually refers to television sets that are stored, sold and donated, rather than recycled.
The national television recycling scheme is not expected to be operational for another three years, even though many areas will lose their analogue broadcast signals before then, research by the Total Environment Centre shows.
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