Anyone know of any company that takes computers and monitors and recycles them?
I don’t have an inventory but the numbers are in the high hundreds. I might not have to deal with them if I can get the existing owner to deal with them but I suspect I might have to be the one to dispose of all this stuff. The school obviously didn’t have any use for them anymore.
blue
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I'm sure there's a large scale commercial operation near you blue, there are at least two that I know of in my part of CT...
(found this article: http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600042 )
Edited 10/17/2006 3:24 pm ET by PaulBinCT
You buy a school?
New line of work, milking the taxpayers?
Joe H
Blue,
Here in Austin, Dell has started a program to take old computers. If you call the DEQ, they probably have some source.
Bruce
Blue, There is a recuycling (or something) program in Ann Arbor.
If I recall, big stuff (the cpu/case/ monitors keyboards/ printers are taken for free, there is a charge for related stuff
There is a place in Bowling Green OH, but they charge by the pound (And It was something like $15 for one of my monitors.)
One area of concern for some: apparently a lot of used PC is shipped overseas (china?) and stripped down with a fair degree of heavy metals and other nasties and stuff being released into the environment.
"They" say you should check what your disposal point is doing with the equipment
THE Ann Arbor place assured me they do the "right thing."
Here's a site I found on the web, I don't know anything about it (And couldn't dfind a location for them???)
Recycles.Org
Nonprofit Recycling Network™
Linking donors together with recipients
on the web since 1994
http://www.recycles.org/index.htm
Youth and Enthusiasm Are No Match
For Age and Treachery
Libraries, senior centers, women's shelters, after-school programs, and other non-profits often have recycling programs. The "materials" themselves aren't recycled for other uses, but the computers are given new life as....computers! Hard drives are erased, keyboards cleaned, etc, and the computers are then given or sold cheaply to low-income families, seniors, etc. Often they're just used for email or word-processing, so it's not like they have to be state-of-the-art machines...
Blue,
Our local Clean Community Commission had an "e waste" day here recently. They put out info to the effect that an old monitor might have as much as four pounds of lead. No money involved, but it gave us a chance to keep such stuff out of the landfills.
See if your community has a Clean Community Commission, or there might be one nearby. Shame you couldn't get some bucks for the kind of volume you're talking about.
Greg