[PowerElectronix]

Effort high enough to consider that material lost to any practical purpose like a tv.

[swiftcoder]

Cost scales with refinement effort, so it just results in more expensive TVs. That said, pretty sure we'll have drowned the planet in landfilled TVs long before this becomes a serious issue

[nkrisc]

If prices of certain metals were high enough I bet people would stop throwing out TVs and dig up old ones from the dump.