What to do with old electronics...

[suzthefrog]

My workplace (a non profit artist-run center in the field of media arts/ video production and distribution) has been hiding a few "abandonned monsters" in its closet : an old high-maintenance laser printer (worst purchase ever), a nearly stone-age digital camcorder that doesn't even have a fire wire(!), 2 SCSI (!) external hard drives, an old (

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[spirited_grace]

We have small, privately owned electronic shops that recycle electronics for a very small fee. They are run by socially responsible geeks and charge as little as possible. Any chance of something like that being in your area?

[agraciado]

iawtc. A lot of times they'll even take them for free because they can use spare parts or they will get paid to have them recycled.

[yukonsally]

Or they'll take trades. I had a bunch of stuff that they would buy for parts and a bunch of stuff they would charge to take off my hands and we just gave them everything and called it even.

[suzthefrog]

Trade-in is offered only by a few rare places here. Anyway, our monsters at work are in bad to average shape or just so old that they are hard to give away for free. BTW, thanks for the additional tag, I did not notice there was a "green disposal" one :-).

[suzthefrog]

They do takes some computers and parts for free, but they have to charge fees for screens due to an overload of old crt screens and TVs being dumped at recycling places.

[suzthefrog]

Yes, we have one or 2 of those in the area. That's where I took our old crt computer screens. They will take computers /parts too, but not camcorders /copiers /electronics. The only place I know that takes old electronics will only take Sony.