It's not just monitors that you have to concern yourself about. And even working monitors will be hard to deal with since most people won't accept just any CRT these days. Things like 15" and smaller CRTs are not going to have takers. Even 17" CRTs will be tough to give away.

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I gave away a CRT monitor once on CraigsList, and it went pretty fast. I would just have to test the waters and see. A lot of people are trying to sell them for anywhere from $4 to $20 each. I might be able to sell nicer flat glass, 17" or 19" ones.

You'll probably find that you'll be parting out stuff in order to get more money. People will pay more for smaller bits because they don't want to get a bunch of trash along with what they really want. After all, they would have to pay for that trash and pay for the cost of shipping trash.

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I have no problem parting out PCs, or Macs that have some flaw (ruined case, bad major component that I don't have lying about, etc.)

You should probably be finding people who will take scrap metal off your hands, and be prepared to strip systems down to scrap metal. The plastic bits you can probably just rent a dumpster for. Things like circuit boards though you'll have to find a way to dispose of properly.

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I will have access to a dumpster, so I can get rid of some non-toxic stuff that way. There's plenty of places that will take scrap metal and I can probably get some quotes and find who will pay the most.

Also don't expect the city to not catch onto what you're doing. It may take a few months, but they will eventually recognise your face. Be prepared with a backup plan for that.

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It's not a viable plan in the long run, but it is probably sufficient for a one-off recycling drive. I'm pretty sure the city gets paid for each pallet of stuff that the bastard recycler takes away, so the city probably doesn't care, and I know for a fact that the recycler takes all the CRT monitors, palletizes them, and sends them away somewhere - he doesn't do any actual recycling of the monitors. He could be sending the stuff to India or something where little kids take them apart for scrap, but I don't think the city would affiliate themselves with a recycler who did that.

I still have a few other options for getting rid of the CRTs. Goodwill accepts CRTs; only larger newer flat front CRTs are sold in their shop and all others are recycled - Dell foots the bill, so I'm not disadvantaging Goodwill. I have taken about a dozen CRTs to Goodwill over time. There are also other recycling drives held by other companies, and some companies do take CRTs for free drop off, usually with a quantity limit.