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oh W oh

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so have you got some old electronics lying around and not sure about the

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proper way to dispose of them here's your first hint as much as you may or

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may not have enjoyed that silly little bit that we did there that was not it

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the Logitech g303 features a lightweight design an advanced Optical sensor with

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Delta zero technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your

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setup check out the link in the video description to learn more now it's no

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great secret that to reduce your consumption or reuse that which has

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already been consumed is better in terms of ecological impact than and recycling

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it but sometimes it happens that you might have an unfortunate run of bad

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luck that causes oh I don't know three motherboards in a row to spontaneously

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die through no fault of your own or here's another scenario you've got

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devices that technically still work but have come to the point where absolutely

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no one not even your weird Uncle who keeps milk crates of electronics in his

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garage is willing to use them so the

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first question I usually get is why can't I just put my old CRT TV or

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motherboard or hard drive in the garbage

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and the answer is that while you actually technically can because most

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garbage collection Services frankly don't have the time or willingness to

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dig through your trash bin to see what you put in there there are a lot of good

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reasons why you shouldn't number one is

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that it keeps chemicals and heavy metals managed correctly E-Waste can contain

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mercury lead cadmium arsenic lithium and

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a wide variety of other harmful or dangerous substances number two is that

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precious materials such as aluminum from casings Copper from wiring or even gold

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from contact points can be recovered through the disassembly of old

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electronics this lessens the need for harvesting new raw materials from the

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finite supply of resources that is our planet Earth and number three even if

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you're not a tree hugger or whatever this should matter to you if you're a

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taxpayer is that it keeps these items out of landfills which means landfill

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spaces conserved lowering the cost of your local waste disposal services and

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in the long term even the cost associated with things like increased

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water filtration if any of these Metals end up in the water supply so then okay

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that sounds great lonus why aren't people doing this then great question

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and the answer is pretty simple it's timec consuming and tedious work to

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safely disassemble these products to the point where they can be reused in place

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of raw materials which means it's actually quite expensive to do so here

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in BC Canada we have what's called an environmental handling fee that gets

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charged on items that can be returned for free Recycling and while there's

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plenty of debate to be had about a mandatory fee at the time of purchase on

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all items I'll leave that to the philosophers but it's quite possible

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your region has a similar program that you can take advantage of and even if it

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doesn't you may discover some random and unexpected ways to dispose of this stuff

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as well Bottle Depot for example in my area are the return point for most

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E-Waste and Ikea of all places has their

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own instore drop off for household battery and light bulb recycling go

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figure and if your area doesn't have anything like this there are services

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like think recycle.com that do charge

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for the items that they can't get any value out of but can actually pay a

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bounty for some other items and they'll do things like refurbished toner

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cartridges and they'll accept and even pay by the pound for phones iPads and

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laptops even if they're completely nonfunctional all you have to do is put

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at least 15 items in a box and ship it off to them if you have enough of the

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acceptable items versus complete junk they're even willing to provide you with

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a free shipping label but wait if this video has inspired you

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to run out and responsibly dispose of your electronic waste there are a couple

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of things you should do first number one see if it still works hey we've got a

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local program called freegeek that is willing to take a lot of old computer

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and electronic stuff and distribute it to people and organizations that need it

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like I said at the beginning reuse is better than Recycling and number two

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while you're at it thoroughly wipe any personal data off of your devices before

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recycling them while most people don't

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even want to see that selfie sex tape you made that night after graduation or

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whatever anyone who does want to see it you probably don't want them seeing it

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so do your do diligence and on the subject of digital

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security it's fairly common knowledge

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among the techsavvy that even in a perfect world text-based passwords

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without additional authentication factors are just not very secure and

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