How One St. Louis Resident Ended Up With a Bin Full of DirecTV Equipment

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, replaced units, or added TVs, but the old hardware was never collected. When they finally changed providers, DirecTV didn’t want any of it back. They were told to “recycle it locally.”

This is exactly how e-waste grows quietly inside homes. Every upgrade creates more devices, but the responsibility to recycle them isn’t clear.

Seeing all of this from one household shows how much waste can accumulate even when someone is doing everything right. I’m glad we could help them dispose of everything properly through our certified recycling partner, Spectrum E-cycle Solutions.

If you have old cable boxes, modems, or provider equipment at home, you’re not alone. ByteBackSTL can help. Visit bytebackstl.com or contact me anytime at roshanrao@bytebackstl.com