Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer

IcerLeaf writes "CNN reports that Office Depot will happily recycle one old electronics item per customer, per day, from July 18th through September 6th. Qualifying electronics include computers, monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, digital cameras, cell phones, and TVs 27" or smaller. Office Depot and Hewlett Packard will be splitting the bill. What's coming out of your basement?"

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Re:Monitors have lead - please recycle

[Ben Hutchings]

The profit comes from the extra sales to people that could have used second-hand computers if they hadn't been given to Office Depot to destroy.

"Recycled" electronics often end up being shipped to places like China where poorly paid and unprotected workers manually strip the few valuable materials out of them and dump the rest in the river, slowly poisoning the entire area. But hey, it's good for the economy!