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so have you got some old electronics lying around and not sure about the
proper way to dispose of them here's your first hint as much as you may or
may not have enjoyed that silly little bit that we did there that was not it
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setup check out the link in the video description to learn more now it's no
great secret that to reduce your consumption or reuse that which has
already been consumed is better in terms of ecological impact than and recycling
it but sometimes it happens that you might have an unfortunate run of bad
luck that causes oh I don't know three motherboards in a row to spontaneously
die through no fault of your own or here's another scenario you've got
devices that technically still work but have come to the point where absolutely
no one not even your weird Uncle who keeps milk crates of electronics in his
garage is willing to use them so the
first question I usually get is why can't I just put my old CRT TV or
motherboard or hard drive in the garbage
and the answer is that while you actually technically can because most
garbage collection Services frankly don't have the time or willingness to
dig through your trash bin to see what you put in there there are a lot of good
reasons why you shouldn't number one is
that it keeps chemicals and heavy metals managed correctly E-Waste can contain
mercury lead cadmium arsenic lithium and
a wide variety of other harmful or dangerous substances number two is that
precious materials such as aluminum from casings Copper from wiring or even gold
from contact points can be recovered through the disassembly of old
electronics this lessens the need for harvesting new raw materials from the
finite supply of resources that is our planet Earth and number three even if
you're not a tree hugger or whatever this should matter to you if you're a
taxpayer is that it keeps these items out of landfills which means landfill
spaces conserved lowering the cost of your local waste disposal services and
in the long term even the cost associated with things like increased
water filtration if any of these Metals end up in the water supply so then okay
that sounds great lonus why aren't people doing this then great question
and the answer is pretty simple it's timec consuming and tedious work to
safely disassemble these products to the point where they can be reused in place
of raw materials which means it's actually quite expensive to do so here
in BC Canada we have what's called an environmental handling fee that gets
charged on items that can be returned for free Recycling and while there's
plenty of debate to be had about a mandatory fee at the time of purchase on
all items I'll leave that to the philosophers but it's quite possible
your region has a similar program that you can take advantage of and even if it
doesn't you may discover some random and unexpected ways to dispose of this stuff
as well Bottle Depot for example in my area are the return point for most
E-Waste and Ikea of all places has their
own instore drop off for household battery and light bulb recycling go
figure and if your area doesn't have anything like this there are services
like think recycle.com that do charge
for the items that they can't get any value out of but can actually pay a
bounty for some other items and they'll do things like refurbished toner
cartridges and they'll accept and even pay by the pound for phones iPads and
laptops even if they're completely nonfunctional all you have to do is put
at least 15 items in a box and ship it off to them if you have enough of the
acceptable items versus complete junk they're even willing to provide you with
a free shipping label but wait if this video has inspired you
to run out and responsibly dispose of your electronic waste there are a couple
of things you should do first number one see if it still works hey we've got a
local program called freegeek that is willing to take a lot of old computer
and electronic stuff and distribute it to people and organizations that need it
like I said at the beginning reuse is better than Recycling and number two
while you're at it thoroughly wipe any personal data off of your devices before
recycling them while most people don't
even want to see that selfie sex tape you made that night after graduation or
whatever anyone who does want to see it you probably don't want them seeing it
so do your do diligence and on the subject of digital
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