OT: Best place to recycle electronic parts?

[Eric Cope]

The Recycling Association of Maricopa (the town) accepts electronics,
although it charges for tube monitors and tvs.
Eric

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Joe Zagar <jzagar at jzagar.com> wrote:

> 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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