Anyone use electronics recycling services for your old and/or dead electronics?

[StevenYoo]

I have some dead motherboards and other dead, unnecessary electronics laying around the house and I don't want to throw them in the trash for environmental reasons.

What can I do?

 

[Jeff7]

I've sent stuff to Envirocycle a few times before.
$25 gets you a UPS label, good for up to 69lbs. It was fine back when they were just Envirocycle. Since they were bought by Amandi, getting anyone on the phone was nearly impossible. It took a few days of phone tag to finally get the label sent to me.

I live in a city now, so maybe there's a local disposal option.
Try the Yellowpages, too. Maybe for "Recycling services" or "hazardous waste disposal" or "computer/electronics recycling," or anything relevant.

 

[Beller0ph1]

I've dropped stuff off at Office Depot for $10. I don't know if they'll take parts, but they take whole things (monitors, printers, CPUs)

 

[0roo0roo]

call the city or the garbage company. sometimes on special days of the years they have pickups or dropoffs.

 

[BoomerD]

We can take stuff like that to the county's hazardous waste station at no cost to us.

 

[Brainonska511]

In my home town, there are a few times a year when the sanitation department runs electronic waste recycling stuff - but you have to mark the date and bring it to a local sanitation depot.

 

[RU482]

PCB containing....
shakes head and grunts

 

[IGBT]

..I see stuff dumped all over the streets. saw a 15" lcd monitor with a bunch of other junk next to a public gargage can. wonder why no one has come up with a recycle plan for this stuff.

 

[sandorski]

Electronics are now Required to be Recycled here now....they will be where you are soon too.

 

[dwcal]

Yeah, lots of cities will take them for recycling. Search for "household hazardous waste" or "e-waste".

 

[Jumpem]

I just put them out with the garbage. We don't even have recycling here.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: redly1
PCB containing....
shakes head and grunts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl?

 

[BrownTown]

I assume you are talking about printed circuit boards containing lead solder, but using the word "PCB" in terms of hazardous waste is gonna make everyone immediately think polychlorinated biphenyls which is likely not what you had in mind.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
I assume you are talking about printed circuit boards containing lead solder, but using the word "PCB" in terms of hazardous waste is gonna make everyone immediately think polychlorinated biphenyls which is likely not what you had in mind.

err. yes.

 

[flavio]

There's a place here that takes any electronics for recycling for free. I took and old printer and scanner there the other day.

I wonder what they do with the stuff.