Starting next month, the larger your TV the more you'll have to pay to recycle it at Casper's landfill.

Right now, it's one flat fee, but due to high processing costs, the council may opt for a per pound rate for bulkier items.

That is, unless you can hold onto it until one of two possible "amnesty" days, when you could rid yourself of your tube free of charge.

The Casper City Council also decided in a work session on Thursday that they would not grant groups such as the local nonprofit Poverty Resistance waivers for broken, outdated or otherwise unwanted electronics. It may, however, establish two days, one this fall and one post-Christmas, when Casperites can recycle all their electronics, including TVs, for free.

Council member Keith Goodenough said he worried that if the fees are too high people will continue to either place them in Dumpsters or "gift" them to second-hand stores.

The proposed fees for electronics will be $5, $10 and $15 for scaled box sizes, and 40 cents per pound for items larger than 24-by-18-by-18-inches.

Many council members decided the television influx will be a short-term problem since most of the TVs will be discarded before February, when the federal government requires the switch to digital viewing.

The new rates, said Public Services Director Gary Clough, will work for computer equipment and smaller electronics, such as laptops, that will be more frequently discarded in the coming years.

The council did give the Chamber of Commerce a waiver for its Computers 4 Kids program in June. But, the council decided it couldn't continue to waive fees for individual groups.

Some council members asked to have the amnesty day as soon as September, and hope that stores such as Poverty Resistance will be able to store the old tubes until then.

In other council news:

* It preliminarily approved waiving roughly $50,000 in fees for a low-income senior housing development in north Casper.

* It preliminarily agreed to spend roughly $4,000 on 19 new chairs to replace the current 15-year-old chairs in the meeting room and chambers.

* It preliminarily decided to conduct an extensive compensation survey of city employees.

* It preliminarily agreed to waive $14,000 for city services used during the Platte River Revival day in September.

Contact city reporter Christine Robinson at (307) 266-0639 or christine.robinson@trib.com