Finding a place to get rid of (read:recycle) a monitor is frustrating as a student

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UnatcoAgent

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I contacted my boss (department manager) asking if he knows a place on campus, we shall see...
 

Jadow

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take em out on the lake, shoot em, and then dump em in. AKA the Fredo disposal method.
 

richardycc

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Originally posted by: Sabot
I contacted my boss (department manager) asking if he knows a place on campus, we shall see...


did you can dell.ca? I think they have a recycling program, and you get a 10% coupon too, not sure if it will cost you to ship it thou. good luck!
 

UnatcoAgent

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Originally posted by: richardycc
Originally posted by: Sabot
I contacted my boss (department manager) asking if he knows a place on campus, we shall see...


did you can dell.ca? I think they have a recycling program, and you get a 10% coupon too, not sure if it will cost you to ship it thou. good luck!

I'll look into this tomorrow, if I have to pay for the shipping, forget it, but if they're going to take it that would be sweet.

Thanks!
 

olds

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When my 21" CRT died I thought I had a tricky way of getting rid of it.
I set it in the back of my pick up with the tailgate down. I figured someone driving by would see it and steal it. 5 days later it was gone. I was happy. The next day my neighbor told me he saw it sitting there and thought it was going to rain so he put it in his gagrage for me. :(
 

UnatcoAgent

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
When my 21" CRT died I thought I had a tricky way of getting rid of it.
I set it in the back of my pick up with the tailgate down. I figured someone driving by would see it and steal it. 5 days later it was gone. I was happy. The next day my neighbor told me he saw it sitting there and thought it was going to rain so he put it in his gagrage for me. :(

Haha that's hilarious, too bad you didn't catch the people who took it!
 

PHiuR

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
When my 21" CRT died I thought I had a tricky way of getting rid of it.
I set it in the back of my pick up with the tailgate down. I figured someone driving by would see it and steal it. 5 days later it was gone. I was happy. The next day my neighbor told me he saw it sitting there and thought it was going to rain so he put it in his gagrage for me. :(

haha, thats great :D
 

UnatcoAgent

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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What about donating it to goodwill? You can even use it as a tax write off!

Yeah but the thing is busted, I don't want to donate a busted mons...
 

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Originally posted by: mchammer187
queues Office Space music

:music: back that ass up with the resurrection :music:

get a baseball bat and go to down...be sure to have a token brown dude there who can breakdance afterwards.

 

Slickone

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Good luck. I tried to find a place to take mine, and couldn't. Tried calling Office Max, etc. Called a high school. My city didn't have a freakin clue and could care less. They did say the dump in our same county (20 min away in BFE) would take it, but that's a lot of work to recycle a monitor. I did finally get there but they were closed, so I left it by the glass, can, paper bins. :) Didn't know Salvation Army would take it. Don't think I called the community college not too far away either. What is FISH and OARC?

It seems most don't care about their future generations.

 

lokiju

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The closest dump by me has a section for electronic recycling, free to dump it too which is nice.
 

Pepsi90919

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Originally posted by: Sabot
Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Office Depot. You can bring in 1 piece of computer hardware to be recycled for free.

I just called them about it. Staples=Office Depot here. Chick had no idea what I was talking about.

I'll try another store.

actually it's staples/business depot.