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Monkey

Digital switchover increases chance of golfers ending up in the bunker

Golf Paul Lawrie
Careful! That's a TV you've just hit. Photograph: Mike Egerton/Empics Sports Photo Agency

So London's digital switchover finally finishes on Wednesday. What do you mean, you didn't notice? Anyway, Monkey hears of some surprise beneficiaries of switchover, namely golf courses. The number of TV sets that get recycled increases by up to 43% in the three months leading up to switchover in any particular region and the glass from junked TVs gets ground down into sand for golf bunkers. According to recycling company Veolia, which did the research, up to 95% of television parts can be recycled. You can insert your own joke here about the same being true of television programme ideas.

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