OT: Best place to recycle electronic parts?

[Joe Zagar]

Our east valley computer club donates everything electronic, to the Boys 
and Girls club of Apache Junction. They use it for training and / or 
fund raising
Joe

der.hans wrote:
> 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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Joe

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