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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[tekunokurato]

Recycle your used tech with 5R Processors! They are the nation's largest computer recyclers and put a lot of the tech to work either through refurbished sales or donations.

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Coming out of my basement? Heck...

[march]

What's coming out of my basement? Heck, I'm going to go and stand in front of these stores and try to take the old stuff from people who are going to recycle it so I can add them to my collection!!

I'm still looking for that old atari and timex sinclair... :-)

other ways to recycle...

[jmrobinson]

While I think this is great of Office Depot, I think re-implementing some of the older technology to maybe some younger siblings, cousins, Boys and Girls club, etc. could also be good. There are still a lot of people that can afford these types of things. So, before you go recycling that 486 at office depot, thing about re-deployment!

Re:other ways to recycle...

[Snap E Tom]

Please don't. Ask yourself whether you'd want to use this machine everyday.

I volunteer for a medium-sized nonprofit. We get a fair number of PIII's that we use and a lot of 486's and PI's that we can't. Sure, we get a lot fewer PIII's and even PIV's, but there's enough out there on the market that our staff of sixty all have PIII's and above. People think they can just dump off their toxic crap and get a tax write off. Instead, they just shift the burden of getting rid of this stuff on us.

Considering this this slashdot

[ShieldWolf]

The proper question may be who is coming out the basement.

I hoarde this crap..

[JRHelgeson]

Twice a year up in Princeton, Minnesota they have a machine gun shoot (www.tankrides.com). Now, regardless of what your opinion of guns are - pulling off 100 rounds from an M-60, AK-47 or an M-16, I tell you, nothing compares.

I stockpile old computer equipment to take up to the shoot so I can put a few rounds of .50 cal through it.

There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.

It's beautiful.

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[digitalsushi]

Want to get rid of something for free?

I kid you not this ALWAYS WORKS.

Put it outside on a table with a hefty pricetag overnight, like a yard sale you didn't clean up.

Every single thing I've put out on the front lawn like that, including a carrion mini-fridge, groaning for burial, has been stolen!

Re:stuff owns us

[AKAImBatman]

I was doing an IP renumbering, and I reset the default route on their web server. I was telnetted in at the time, from another room. [snip] She walked me up to the console, all remaining 50 keys on the keyboard and shattered monitor and everything.

And it was still running! Can't get that type of reliability out of a PC! ;-) I'll bet you could have even hooked a dumb terminal to the serial port and fixed everything without issue.

Bah, kids these days with their "disposable" Windows boxes. Wouldn't know real hardware if it hit them on the head! (Because they'd be unconscious. That shit is heavy!)

Re:stuff owns us

[southpolesammy]

So you replaced a piece of broken hardware with a piece of broken software?

(Sorry, just had to say it....)