Computer Hardware Disposal
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Jeff7
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I would normally recommend Amandi, formerly Envirocycle, however, since Amandi bought Envirocycle, I have had a lot of trouble getting ahold of any employee there so as to order a UPS shipping label - $25 gets you a UPS shipping label good for a box with a total weight of up to 69lbs.
Jeff7
Lifer
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I wouldn't think that there'd be much gold in anything but the pins of CPUs.
I've got all kinds of crap that doesn't work anymore - hard drives, motherboards, VCRs, printers, phones, keyboards, and other electroincs, probably over 100lbs of it. I'd like a place like Envirocycle to take it, because they at least try to recycle what they can of the various parts. Some place that just recovers gold and silver might just dump the rest of the stuff in a landfill anyway.
nick1985
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- Dec 29, 2002
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Theres one in St. Charles that I have taken stuff to, cant seem to find a website for it though. I believe there is another in Chicago too, which is about an hour away. They dont give you much, but if you have a TON of crap to get rid of, its a good way to make a few bucks. As one of the above posters mentioned about copper, they pull the copper out of the hard-drives, floppy-drives, PCB and stuff. They also recover any gold/silver that they can from it.
RichUK
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HERE is a link to a PBS video news clip about the e-waste in India.
As it quite rightly points out in that clip, it's hardly feasible to recycle electronic waste in countries such as America. The claim that there are companies in America that carry out this recycling and so say ?pay? for it, in reality most likely make money from exporting it to countries such as India.
As it quite rightly points out in that clip, it's hardly feasible to recycle electronic waste in countries such as America. The claim that there are companies in America that carry out this recycling and so say ?pay? for it, in reality most likely make money from exporting it to countries such as India.
seriously. craiglist wouldt be a bad idea maybe. offer the whole lot of it for some cash. hell, if its not godawful ancient the Freebies thread or the FS/T forums would be a good place to get rid of it.
SKORPI0
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- Jan 18, 2000
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Go to the dump and see. If they don;t have a place for it try and sell it. The crap that's too broken to sell can be sent to Dell or HP, they have a recycling program.
i have sent boxes and boxes of crap to dell thru my old work. i'm not sure exactly how it worked but dell would give him (my boss) boxes and shipping labels, we would stuff them full of unrepairable parts from computers, laptops, etc and would drop it at UPS.. basically to us it was a good way to get rid of garbage for free, one time we sent them back ~300 dell magazines lol.. from collecting them. we have sent some things that i can't tell you about on this forum too lol.
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