IPSWICH residents are being urged to recycle their old TVs instead of clogging up landfills ahead of the digital switchover.

Hundreds of TVs are being thrown away every week in Ipswich according to the dump supervisor at Riverview Recycling and Refuse Centre, with numbers set to grow.

The switchover is now less than three weeks away, with the analogue signal set to be turned off on Tuesday, May 28.

Booval electronic store the Good Guys, however, is offering to take analogue TVs off your hands and recycle the parts instead of throwing them out.

Store owner Mark Timms said recycling TVs was an easy alternative to simply throwing them out.

"A broadcast change like this can be daunting particularly if you aren't across the terminology, changeover dates and how your equipment will be affected," he said.

"Our aim is to offer a one-stop shop for the changeover. Residents can come in store, speak with our staff to assess the right equipment option for their household and then discard their unwanted televisions at the same time."

"If just 75% of televisions discarded each year were recycled, Australia could save up to 160,000 cubic metres in landfill space.

"We're making recycling analogue TVs easy.

"There's no excuse not to recycle your old televisions - you simply need to either drop it off in store or on delivery of a new digital television purchase from The Good Guys, we will collect your old TV for free."

Mr Timms said while people had been upgrading to digital TVs for years now, he was expecting the rate to increase as the date crept closer.

"What we've seen in South Australia where the switch has already happened, is it really picks up one week before the switchover date and three weeks after," he said.

Australians purchase more than one million new TV sets every year.

That number is set to spike this year due to the digital switchover.

To seek further information regarding the switchover, visit digitalready.gov.au