Does anyone know where old electronic devices go to die ? do junk yards usually end up with this stuff for recycling/proper disposal or does it usually end up as landfill ??

 

Junk Yards to the best of my knowledge will take anything.

 

pawn shops.

flea markets.

yard sales.

my basement....lol.

 

Actually, being serious, they had a few big articles on the vast amount of 'junk' computer parts on 60 minutes or something a while back.

We go through this stuff at such a high rate that it is cause for (even more) concern, due to its make-up.

Apparently since most of these sorts of parts like circuit boards,hard/disk drives, wiring, power supplies etc, are virtually indestructible materials-wise, they are predicting there will be a huge problem with them in landfills due to their inability to break down.

Not like we dont have enough problems with our trash, either.

However there were a few large companies in the USA attempting to find a way to recycle/reuse these parts....not sure on the most recent news on that though.

 

hey isn't edmonton comeing out with a electronic's receyle depote?
i thought i watched something about it awhile back. some guy's from germany (or some country over thier) came up with the plan and edmonton invested in it.
correct me if im wrong, i just vagly remeber soemthign about it. so i could be wrong.

 

Well my back-water town of less than 45,000 people has a computer/electronic recycling company. And since eveything west of Toronto is apparantly 'behind the times' there should be one out east.

Check your local yellow pages...

 

E-Bay and then all the peoples vehicle who shop there. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

 

"Depot" not depote, "Germany" not germany, "there" not their, "Edmonton" not edmonton, "Vaguely" vagly, "Remember" not remeber, "Something" not soemthign [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

^^ C'mon now Ter.. you know that making fun of his spelling is getting old [img]tongue.gif[/img]

 

I thought it all got refurb'd and sold @ XS cargo?? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]