Retailers

Our strike rate with retailers was only marginally better.

Bond & Bond
We called Bond & Bond to find out if the company could take back an old TV previously purchased from the store. The rep said if we were buying a new set, they would take the old one away. But if we weren't buying new, we were stuck. The rep suggested we take the TV to the landfill or phone a repair shop to see if they were interested in it for spare parts.

Harvey Norman
We got a similar response from Harvey Norman. The company said there was "no particular place" we could take our TV.

LV Martin
Wellington retailer LV Martin did have a solution. The salesperson said we could bring our old TV back to the store and they would arrange for it to be recycled. The salesperson even offered to help lift the set out of the car when we dropped it off. Couldn't fault that.

Noel Leeming
No such luck at Noel Leeming. The store said it would take our old TV away if we were buying a new one. But it had no solutions for disposing of our telly if we weren't buying another.

100% Appliances
The salesperson at 100% Appliances in Wellington tried to be helpful, although his advice wasn't 100% clear. He told us there was a place out "near the landfill" at Porirua – we assume he was referring to Trash Palace, which runs an e-waste drop-off centre. He also said there was somewhere "down by the stadium". We think he was probably referring to the site of past "E-day" collections. E-day was an annual event where you could take old computers for recycling but its government funding has been stopped.