Electronics Recycling frustration

I hate like hell to toss old VCRs, printers, stereo components, etc on the curb. But I'm finding out that it's enormously expensive--more expensive than some of these things cost in the first place--to recycle them. It's really frustrating. Staples will take small stuff like phones and cameras and desktop computers/monitors if you pay them a little, but this other stuff is looking grim.

eta: <a href='http://www.officedepot.com/speciallinks/us/od/docs/promo/pages/docs/techrecyclingbroch_july.pdf">Office Depot</a> seems to have the best program going, but it's still going to cost a pretty penny to dispose of this bulky stuff. Anybody want a used but functional VCR? ... yeah, I thought not. Well, I guess it is what it is. .

Electronics follow up

Craigslist/Freecycle will be good for the things that work, but there's some busted stuff too :-/
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