Throwing away PC kit

Take them down to the dump - that's what I did. They have a place there for old PC components, monitors, etc

Had a car full of the stuff (with the seats folded down). Had to convince them that I wasn't a business as there was so much stuff!
 
Berserker said:
They will definitely not fit in the wheelie bin, so I guess I'll have to call the council and get charged. :confused:
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Give them to the next rag & bone man who comes past?
Ask anyone who's using a skip if you could be cheeky and put them in there?
Put them in a nice shiny new TV (or similar) box, seal it and leave it on your doorstep for the local ne'er-do-wells to remove for free? ;)

Or hit them with a large hammer until they do fit? :D The old PCs, not the locals that is!
 
Treefrog said:
Put them in a nice shiny new TV (or similar) box, seal it and leave it on your doorstep for the local ne'er-do-wells to remove for free? ;)
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I put our christmass tree in the front yard ( tiny terace house type yard) a few days before id have the time to go and take it to the tip. I came home that evening and it had gone. Sometimes the scrotes really do have their uses. Just about ANYTHING you put in the alley behind our house will be gone by morning. And i mean ANYTHING!
 
Skyfire said:
I have two old computers which will happily fit in the bin but I'm a bit worried about these EU regulations - does it only apply to business or do I have to pay someone to remove it? :(
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~J~ said:
Charities won't accept them, but if you have a local mission/church then they'll willingly accept them and ship them out to 3rd world countries.

I've had 2 of mine go to Liberia and got a "thank you" email from the kids over there. Very touching[font=Verdana,helvetica,arial].[/font]
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This place will make good use of them - Computer Aid
 
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Do what a lot of people do, find a retail park, drive into the service area, deposit said items in the many skips dotted about.

I spend plenty of time overnighting in such places in my truck, and I watch a steady stream of people coming to deposit whatever, also, an almost equal number of people "skip diving" seeing what tat they can find for e-bay etc.

Probably illegal tbh. :p
 
What pc's are they? I'd happily take em in and try give them to a charity here or something. Or even strip them down hehe.
 
I usually just leave the old cases at the bins for the cleansing to pick up as they go round every Tuesday usually. Components I take into work for the junk pile and let them get charged. :D
 
Dangerous said:
They don’t accept electric goods
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Some do. Most charities are very leery of taking computer gear, partly because of safety implications amd partly because of the inferences (which are still VERY unclear) of the WEEE regulations. But there are charities that specialise in shipping computer gear to schools, etc, in Indonesia, Philippines, Africa, etc and these don't worry about WEEE.

So, you'll find some companies that will donate old computer gear to a charity rather than pay a disposal company to do a WEEE-compliant disposal.

If looking to give computer gear to charity, therefore, I suggest you need :-

1) A charity shipping the gear abroad (and out of the EU)
2) Equipment light enough to be worth shipping (so no large monitors, workgroup lasers, etc)
 
We've found that with the enourmous quantity of used computer equipment on the market, even charities are getting fussy about what they'll accept to ship out to the 3rd world. We process something like 20-30,000 units a month for resale, recycling or redeployment. Many companies choose to pass some of their old kit to charities (one of the big credit card companies does a lot for example), and we have to take out all the stuff they don't want.
 
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