What happens to freecycle items when no-one wants them anymore?

I remember many years ago taking an extremely well used though now old and battered suitcase to a dump and before we knew what was happening some needy looking person picked it up and said that was exactly what they were looking for. In essence freecycling extends to life of an item, preventing it reaching the dump before its due date. When an item is not good for one person it goes to the next person. This person may either be adept at fixing issues with the item or able to reuse the item in a new way, or simply what were issues to you are not so to them. But right now there is a huge problem facing the world. That if digital TV, HDTV to be precise. We are all being told to "go digital", and in that same breath there is a complete hush around what happens to our old obsolete TV. An initiative is now gaining momentum to force manufacturers to be part of the recycling process. Visit TakeBackMyTV and see if this is where you want your old TV to end up. This scheme is focusing on the US but perhaps the same issues are relevant here in the UK. Right now Sony has signed the pledge to take old TVs back, so if you have a defunct Sony TV make sure they honour that pledge. Whatever the truth, I feel that all freecyclers should be aware of the full life-cycle implications and think about what happens to items when there are no takers.