It's illegal to throw CRT screens in traditional dumpsters due to the hazard of their screen cracking to the point where the vacuum inside causes an implosion, ricocheting glass off the back of the tube and effectively firing it out like a cannon.
You'll notice most professional movers carry CRT screens facing away from themselves and wear thick gloves while doing it.
The sheer pitifulness of my predicament is overshadowed only by the fact that I have to be outside amidst the general public stewing in my own fabricated crippling embarrassment with the haunting notion that there may be an ever-expanding red dot of blood visible on my designer pants