What's the Best Way to Recycle Old Tech in the US?

Tim Danhamn writes "SmartPlanet.com, a green-focused Web site, has put up an article about the best way to recycle your old tech, including local recycling centers and reusing old technology in other ways. I'm about to upgrade to a new PC and I have a lot of old radios, MP3 players and other electronic goods lying around the house. The article though is mostly about solutions in the UK, so I want to know - what is the best way to recycle old tech in the US?"

Comments

And we all know that heavy metals come from?

[DaedalusHKX]

Yep, chrome, lead, etc definitely DO NOT from the environment, so how DARE we put them BACK into the environment. They materialize inside computers out of thin air.

Kind of how maggots used to materialize on steaks during the Middle Ages, until some smartass decided to put some gauze on top of a jar containing a rotten steak... voila, flies on gauze, no maggots on steak... hot diggety damn! Science at work!

Re:And we all know that heavy metals come from?

[DaedalusHKX]

Actually that time I was enjoying myself in hefty doses of sarcasm, facts not withstanding. All I'm saying is this crap has been in the environment for a good bunch of time, before our great great grandparents were being conceived, and the world is just as screwed up now as it was then, everyone is STILL hoping for their preferred prophet to come back wielding a flaming sword or the environment to burst into flames and kill us all, so Al Gore and the UN can save us by taxing our "carbon output", but in the end, our bodies die anyways... a little every day. Why the fsck are we supposed to be worried about 10000 years from now, when the vast majorities cannot live their lives well enough to even justify living past today.

Saving the world should be important, but why is it worth doing when those who scream it the loudest cannot even save themselves?

Re:Damn

[Russ Nelson]

You do realize that a modern landfill encapsulates the contents away from "the environment" (whatever the hell that is). No, of course you don't realize that. Otherwise you wouldn't talk about "consequences on the environment."