Re: OT: Best place to recycle electronic parts?

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Re: OT: Best place to recycle electronic parts?
Am 16. Aug, 2009 schwätzte Vaughn Treude so:

> Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> Here's a post that's at least semi-relevant, since Linux must run on
>>> hardware. I have boxes of old PC boards, drives, keyboards, power
>>> supplies, mice, etc., I want to get rid of. I know places such as
>>> AZStrut will take obsolete computers, but I only have a couple of those.
>>> The rest is all major components like I listed above. There are a large
>>> number of rather confusing options on the Web. Does anyone know of a
>>> place, preferably a charity, that will take them, extract the gold in
>>> the boards, etc.? I'm willing to deliver. I don't mind giving it away
>>> but don't want to have to pay anybody to take them.
>>> Vaughn
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I believe that AZStrut appropriately recycles parts that they cannot
>> use. I just take everything there.
>>
> Cool. Couldn't really tell from their website. Most of my stuff could
> indeed be useful for building computers, albeit rather obsolete ones. :-)


Westpac recyclers can handle most anything electronic.

http://www.westechrecyclers.com/arizona_computer-recycyling-items-recycled.html

If you have somewhat useful computers, please consider KidComputers.org as
it's moving to Ubuntu and azstrut won't consider Free Software.

ciao,

der.hans
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