How should you dispose of an old PC?

[Skeeter]

Hi

Ive got some old stuff lying around I want to get rid of. One thing is an old PC that a housemate no longer uses. I dunno what it is cos ove never booted it, but I know its got 384MB of SDRAM, and a 20GB IDE HDD. Its old, smelly, and just taking up room in my room. Ive stolen the HDD, CD drive and Floppy in case I need a spare for any unforseen reason, but want to chuck the rest. Are there any procedures for trowing out old PCs, or can I just dump it in the dustbin?

Cheers

 

[edgedemon]

I dont think its legal anymore to dump it, you would be better off ringing the council to find out how to go about it..

 

[BillytheImpaler]

There are charities that take old machines to sell, use in nearby schools, or send to schools in faraway places. Certainly don't just throw it out.

 

[PhillyDee]

The local recycling village / tip should have facilities to dispose of electrical items. I know they do in South Shields.

 

[DJProxo]

mine went into works metal skip on the sly lol

 

[Indy500]

Someone might pay you postage costs to take it off your hands, keep that in mind

 

[Carter]

Environmental health office of your local council will tell you.

 

[ShiWarrior]

The local recycling village / tip should have facilities to dispose of electrical items. I know they do in South Shields.

+1
or use FREECYCLE lots of people on their will take it and actualy use it
or give it to a school/charity ?

 

[Skeeter]

its just an old case and mobo and cpu and ram that smell of stale smoke... seriously, nobody would want this... Ill look into the tip

 

[Dureth]

All local tips will have an electronics recycling section. I have taken many old cases with assorted junk hardware in them to it.

 

[Solaris]

Stick it in a corner and fold for team 10?

 

[LeoPheonix]

Freecycle works well - or getting in working order and give it to a charity.

Even turn it into a NAS server using FreeNAS and sell it.