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After helping a resident recycle a pile of outdated DirecTV equipment, I started researching whether customers across the country were running into the same issue. The answer was yes, and the consistency of the stories points to a larger systemic challenge. What DirecTV Customers Are Saying In the official DirecTV Community Forum, several users report that DirecTV no longer wants older equipment returned. One user described calling customer service and being told: “They said

When I helped a St. Louis resident recycle a full bin of DirecTV equipment, it made me wonder how common this issue really is. After researching more, I realized their situation isn’t unusual at all—it’s actually happening across the country. As of the first quarter of 2025, DirecTV  served approximately 11 million satellite-TV customers  in the United States ( Source: Nscreenmedia, n.d. ) Over years of upgrades, replacements, and service changes, many customers accumulate m

Last week, I picked up items from a St. Louis resident who had recently switched from DirecTV to YouTube TV. The large bin of hardware from a single household using DirecTV surprised me. Items collected from a single household that used DirecTV Inside the box were multiple Genie receivers, a main DVR unit, a wireless bridge, a modem, several wireless client boxes, power supplies, HDMI cables, splitters, and a stack of remotes. Over the years, they had upgraded equipment, repl

Tech recycling addresses the world’s fastest-growing pollution source: electronic waste. As devices become obsolete more quickly, millions of tons of computers, appliances, and phones are discarded each year. E-waste contains toxic materials that contaminate soil and water, yet only about a quarter is recycled. Recovering valuable metals reduces environmental harm and preserves resources needed to build new technology.

Hi, I’m Roshan I’m a junior in high school, and like most families, mine has a "drawer" (or several) filled with old chargers, phones, earbuds, random cables, and many other gadgets we forgot we even owned. The Wake-Up Moment In the spring of 2023, while we were cleaning our house, my family looked at each other and said, "This can't be right". There were chargers for phones we hadn’t used in years, broken devices stuffed into boxes, and enough cables to fill an entire backpa