Best Buy will take it back. For free. In some places.

Electronics and technology retailer Best Buy is experimenting with a free consumer electronics take-back program at 117 stores in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Baltimore/Washington, D.C. Apparently, the company was prompted by a lobbying group called As You Sow, which encouraged it to adopt the program. (As You Sow actually pretty much forced Best Buy's hand when it submitted a shareholder requesting that it test a free take-back program. That proposal has been withdrawn.)

Statistically speaking, the two organizations figure that only 12 percent to 15 percent of discarded electronics equipment is actually collected for recycling, refurbishment or reuse. As you doubtless know, more states are passing laws making it illegal for you to simply dump this stuff. And things should get REALLY interesting when the forced digital television broadcast transition happens next year.