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ALstonLoong

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HI ,
Recently, i watched a tv program ...is something like discovery channel. They mention about computer hardware trash in USA. According to them, almost all unwantted computer hardware parts in USA are not recycle or dump in USA but ship it to CHina mainland and dump it over there. What is your point of view ?
 
If you accumulate enough old RAM, you can sell it back to certain manufacturers where they will reuse the silicon. They pay by the POUND of RAM. :Q 😀
 
Originally posted by: ALstonLoong
HI ,
Recently, i watched a tv program ...is something like discovery channel. They mention about computer hardware trash in USA. According to them, almost all unwantted computer hardware parts in USA are not recycle or dump in USA but ship it to CHina mainland and dump it over there. What is your point of view ?
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Maybe you should take this to the OT forum. Either that or just ship it to China; they like all the excess computer garbage. 😉😀
 
From what I have followed with it (I follow a lot of different news), there are only a few companies whose recycling program is legitimate. What happens with most computer hardware is that it gets shipped to other countries (China being one of the main ones) and then auctioned off for real cheap prices (Computer parts by the pound). It then gets sorted and stripped and most of it ends up in ditches.

I have not verified any of this, but that is what I hear happens.
 
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally prefer to "dump" most of my old hardware in the FS/T forum. 😀

Unfortunately, I've not yet heard of any real good way of recycling computer components. They're composed of so many different materials often bonded together, and there's such small amounts of the individual materials that it's probably not ever worth it to strip it down for, say the little bit of silicon in the core of a processor, or the lead and tin in the solder on the circuit board.🙁
 
Yeah, I've heard that's why there's so much computer trash there. It all gets shipped over there where workers have to pick apart the individual components and such 😕
 
I guess .... right now the world have to think of how to recycle or dispose all electric trash. If not , the future world will be full of circuit board 😛
 
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