# Computer disposal or recycling??????

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**Created:** [April 22, 2009, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597 "2009-04-22T09:47:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/21 "2009-04-22T13:37:27Z")

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Let’s be clear some of these may not even be 386s. LOL!!!

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**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/22 "2009-04-22T13:37:38Z")

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Best buy takes em in exchange for a $10 giftcard I think. CRT monitors cost $10 to dispose of there so it voids the gift certificate.

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**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/23 "2009-04-22T14:46:30Z")

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> [@Joe](#):
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> what the hell do they do with a 486 these days if you donate it? teach the kids to play solitaire?

Snow monster avoidance skills in ski-free no doubt.

Any non-IBM compatible stuff by chance? 🙂

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**Author:** ![fiend540](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bcef8e/32.png) [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/24 "2009-04-22T15:16:18Z")

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Aw man ski-free was the shit

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**Author:** ![Vrooom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vrooom/32/7198_2.png) [@Vrooom](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vrooom)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/25 "2009-04-22T15:52:43Z")

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::puts on tinfoil hat::

Most “computer recyclers” are simply exporting old computers to foreign countries where they sit in overseas landfills _un-recycled_. Better off just putting it on your curb, or at least try and donate equipment to a reputable “reuse” organization. Some organizations use older machines, for example, to train the homeless or at-risk youths for modern employment.

“It is estimated five hundred containers of second-hand electronics are imported to Nigeria every month. It is also estimated that three-quarters of these imported products are broken beyond repair…The irony is that many of these electronics were discarded by their original owners in the West for recycling.” [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08/africa.recycling.computers.ewaste/index.html?iref=newssearch](http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08/africa.recycling.computers.ewaste/index.html?iref=newssearch)

Same thing in China…[http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/10/ewaste/index.html](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/10/ewaste/index.html)

:tinfoilhat:

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-disposal-or-recycling/66597/26 "2009-04-22T16:26:21Z")

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^^ Transporter 3, good movie.

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