monitor died - what now?

[kony]

Wouldn't it be ecologically more sound to give it to someone who's
even slightly knowledgeable about electronics so that he or she can
spend $0-20 and an hour and make it work again? Completely dead
monitors are usually easy to fix.

You're right, but I seem to have missed any mention of how old this
monitor is. Beyond a certain point it's not cost or time-effective to
fix, and most people skilled enough to fix one are less than likely to
have need for a broken monitor, are probably throwing them away too.