Recycling computer equipment
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I have a ton of junk that i want to get rid of. a few NICs, an old mobo, sound card, modem, etc.
Ideally i would like to donate this equipment to a non-profit that builds computers for families in need.
sadly i don't like in portland or san francisco. i like in tacema. i would be willing to take them to seattle, as i travel there occasionally.
does anyone know of a good place to send or take old computer parts?
what do you do? do you recycle? do you trash them?
do you ebay them for $1.72?
i don't care onough to do this.
i want them to be recycled at least, if not re-used.
mostly i just want them out of my house.
Ideally i would like to donate this equipment to a non-profit that builds computers for families in need.
sadly i don't like in portland or san francisco. i like in tacema. i would be willing to take them to seattle, as i travel there occasionally.
does anyone know of a good place to send or take old computer parts?
what do you do? do you recycle? do you trash them?
do you ebay them for $1.72?
i don't care onough to do this.
i want them to be recycled at least, if not re-used.
mostly i just want them out of my house.
you should donate your keyboard because it doesnt seem to type "live" probably.
i like in seattle lol lol hi atarom
i like in seattle lol lol hi atarom
pm your phone # and address.. I'm heading up to Seattle on sunday and staying through the following saturday .. I can drop it off at freegeek when I get back.
| gotissues68 wrote: |
pm your phone # and address.. I'm heading up to Seattle on sunday and staying through the following saturday .. I can drop it off at freegeek when I get back. |
that would actually be awesome.
do they want all my worthless crap? ribbon cables? zip drives? on their site i didnt see exactly what they didn't want other than toasters.
regardless, i guess they'd probably know how to recycle it. i'll put it all in a box.
lol lol hi tiluvas, u r funnay
solution: move to portland!
yeah. if i could get a job tthere i would.
also if i could afford a house there i would.
also if i could afford a house there i would.
solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area!
also: i've been typing dvorak for 7 months or so and i still suck at it.
I have Atari hardware from the 80's, pst /w offer.
| atarom wrote: |
solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area! |
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build a robot
The place I work just threw away all their old computer shit (8 pallets stacked 6 feet high each hehe) so I threw my stuff away like that. I guess it goes to the prisoners over in Detroit where they sort the good stuff from the bad, and the bad gets recyled!
| atarom wrote: | ||
that would actually be awesome. do they want all my worthless crap? ribbon cables? zip drives? on their site i didnt see exactly what they didn't want other than toasters. regardless, i guess they'd probably know how to recycle it. i'll put it all in a box. lol lol hi tiluvas, u r funnay |
I think they pretty much take anything. They refurb what they can and get it back into the community for like poor kids and stuff.
Desolder all the electronic components (capacitors, voltage regulators, diodes, etc) from the circuit boards and organize then into bins to make neat shit with later.
A little off topic but I was going through my storage yesterday and I found a 1 gallon container filled with nothing but soda can tabs... Back in highschool some rumor went around that you could recycle them all for like $50.00 so I collected then and somehow forgot about it over all these years.
What should I do with them? I just figured i'd put them in the little green recycle can and let them take it.
What should I do with them? I just figured i'd put them in the little green recycle can and let them take it.
Have a Garage/Yardsale.
Tura .. oddly enough, take them to your local hospital, I think up by oncology, the nurse's station will have a little container for those tabs.. they donate them and somehow the proceeds go to a cancer organization. Call up and ask if you want to check.
I know of them doing this in a few places.
I know of them doing this in a few places.
I have never thrown away any of my old computer parts :p
I still have my first 286 in working order, and tons of video careds that i upgraded in past years heh.
I'm atm building about 6 systems i have lying around in various pieces that range from prolly '82 to '95 just to be able to play old games i still have that wont run in XP without issue heh
It's fun playing things like old wing commander on a 486
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I still have my first 286 in working order, and tons of video careds that i upgraded in past years heh.
I'm atm building about 6 systems i have lying around in various pieces that range from prolly '82 to '95 just to be able to play old games i still have that wont run in XP without issue heh
It's fun playing things like old wing commander on a 486
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here
I use em as targets.
| Aviger wrote: |
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here |
Are you mocking me? =P
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