You may joke Terry, but we have a WEEE skip at work: and what gets put in there...
Seriously - tech "stuff" has become so complex and has so much bang for your buck that it is (mostly) impossible to repair, and when manufacturers actively pursue a path of replace rather than repair, we are using up resources at an alarming rate.
It does have to stop: do people really need to replace their three year old telly with something even bigger, just to impress their neighbours? I've only just got a flat screen (secondhand, of course) because I can't be arsed to fix my CRT at the moment...