The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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They really are forgetting about the millions of TVs out there at places of business that will never get a converter because they have been there since the early 90s. I used to do valet parking, and several of the locations i worked at had old TVs with bunny rabit antennas and will never work again. Im sure there are millions of these TVs, and they will all go dark forever.