The Java Posse recently had an interesting spot on the topic of old hardware: recycling and/or donating to schools etc.
This is a timely topic for me as I have an aging, beastly CRT monitor. I am dreading the thought of moving it from my apartment: it is heavy enough to be a bugger for one person, yet too small for me to actually ask for help lifting it.
I can probably hoist the thing into my car, but it would be nice to know that I am risking major back pain for a good cause.
For the locals: does anyone know of a place in St Louis that accepts old hardware for either recycling or re-purposing (pardon my verbing) ?
For others: what do you do? I'd be willing to consider shipping charges to send it somewhere in the US.
Hmmm.... The real question: is there a website that co-ordinates such organizations? A site where you click on the map and it lists the various places for this kind of thing. (Aside from straight-up Google, Google Maps, etc).
The last time I blogged about electronics recycling, it's about
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ecyclestlouis.org/
which was featured on Channel 4.
People also mentioned
http://www.etechrecycling.com/
http://www.pcrecycler.net/
as possible alternatives.
Office Depot offered free electronics recycling a couple years ago. I took advantage of that and dumped a whole bunch of old stuff, including my dot-matrix printer, there. They did not repeat that program in recent years. But they do sell e-recycling boxes, which you can fill and return to the store:
http://www.officedepot.com/promo.do?file=/promo/pages/0928_recycling.jsp
http://tinyurl.com/5wnrb2
Here's another option, but it's in St. Charles.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scchealth.org/docs/es/docs/recycle/rww.html
Thanks, gents! These are great....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.freecycle.org/ works too. Kinda seems beta-y, like they haven't completed the finishing touches.
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