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What should you do with old/broken laptops?

BronyBrony Posts: 631
edited March 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
Do you just throw them in the trash? I feel like they can be recycled......bring them to a store?
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    Ebay the parts, recycle the rest
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  • BronyBrony Posts: 631
    81 wrote:
    Ebay the parts, recycle the rest
    what parts? clueless
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    battery can be sold on the bay if it's still good, or it can be recycled. Best Buy/Staples/Office Max/Costco will take or at least know where to take your old laptop...PLEASE recycle it...so much lead and mercury and other toxic materials in them.
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    All the working parts, ram, the keyboard, rhe entire thing as is, the monitor. Look up your laptop on ebay.

    Some websights will also pay cash for them.

    Or recycle it if you dont have the time interest. Call best buy and ask the
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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Posts: 11,402
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    RKCNDY wrote:
    battery can be sold on the bay if it's still good, or it can be recycled. Best Buy/Staples/Office Max/Costco will take or at least know where to take your old laptop...PLEASE recycle it...so much lead and mercury and other toxic materials in them.
    yes, please please recycle if you don't want to salvage anything. Electronics like this can be very dangerous to the environment when just thrown into a landfill.
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    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
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    I haven't been this disappointed with being beaten to the punchline since the dinosaur thread :(
  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Posts: 16,988
    What's funny is most of those electronic recyclable places are a sham and they still end up in some toxic computer junk yard in China or Africa.
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    What's funny is most of those electronic recyclable places are a sham and they still end up in some toxic computer junk yard in China or Africa.

    after they take out the gold. :lol:

    but at least the bad mojo is on them.
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  • RYEzupSFRYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    This will help you find a spot to recycle.

    http://www.electronicsrecycling.org/Public/default.aspx
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  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    our county's dump is very much into recycling. they have a huge dumpster just for electronics.
    can you take the hard drive out and smash it with a hammer first? some people buy them and fix them up for nursing homes, for example also.
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  • appieappie Posts: 1,441
    iluvcats wrote:
    our county's dump is very much into recycling. they have a huge dumpster just for electronics.
    can you take the hard drive out and smash it with a hammer first? some people buy them and fix them up for nursing homes, for example also.


    +1 hard drive most go out for safety of your privacy and can be come bad for you in the wrong hands
    Think about password,bankaccounts and stuff like that....but please recycle for the love of our planet!!
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