>want to do the right thing. >take my old electronics to be recycled instead of just throwing them in the dumpster

>want to do the right thing
>take my old electronics to be recycled instead of just throwing them in the dumpster
>but when I get there I'm told "we need to charge you $50 per item"

So in addition to taking time out of my day to bring you the stuff and make sure it's properly disposed of, I'm also going to be charged.

Excellent. I love doing this. Society is so fair.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Recycling that shit obviously isn't cost effective so they have to charge someone or get the government to pay for it (charge us all) in order to make it pencil out.

    We need some pajeets making $0.10 an hour to sort through it all and break it down into useful materials.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      NTA.
      For comparison in EU producers/distributors/end seller are bound to include cost of recycling (2-5 dollaridoos on average for small electronics) in your bill. Then when it's time to throw it in the bin you can show up and gathering spot and turn it in with no additional fee. Recyclers then sort that shit by brand and bill it to producer/distributor. That 50$ most likely stems from the fact that not only there is no relation between producers and recyclers where they would get paid regardless of what they're gonna do with it next but it might turn out that w/e you brought up can not be yet recycled not to mention if it's gonna be at profit or loss.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If they didn't charge then they would get people taking advantage of them by dumping useless shit on them. If you really care then take apart your devices and sort materials ahead of time. I imagine they would take that off your hands no charge.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why not put it In the ocean?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's what I do with my car batteries.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's what I do with my car batteries.

      Dangerous based

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My local guys are $50 for office printers/copiers (meaning huge), $3 desktop printer, $1/lb for CRT, $1/lb for broken LCD screen, and everything else is taken for free.

    Sounds reasonable to me; they aren't providing a landfill service.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sledge hammer to break it up and contractor thick trash bags to throw the pieces in is free.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Keep an eye on the websites for these places. Sometimes the local governments will sponsor free drop off days. I got rid of close to a literal ton of electronics during one of those events. They had to take every inch of it and smile because my tax money said they had to. I'm sure they turned around and tossed most of it in a dumpster to go to the landfill, but that wasn't my problem.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If the shit has ANY value at all, and I mean any, just list it on Craigslist or FB for free. Some people just can't help themselves and will come out of the woodwork to gobble up even broken garbage.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kek, put it on the curb with a price tag on it, and someone will steal it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've literally done this. Had some old shit appliances I got from an estate sale with Free written on a paper attached to it. Sat there 2 days. Wrote $20 on a piece of paper and it was "stolen" 2 hours later by my Black person neighbors.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I had a sofa I couldn't give away for two weeks. Finally.put.itnout front with the ol $20 obo sign and it was gone in a day

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            If you tell people its free they, and by they I mean nonwhites, instinctually don't want it. If you put a price on it their habits kick in and man holmes you see that couch esse that punk is so stooopid leaving it unguarded!

            If you want something gone make sure to assign a price to it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I keep buying old laptops(C2D era/2007 and newer) for $10-20, most of them just need
      a) A HDD, there are 32GB SSDs for $3-5 and 120GB SSDs for $12-15 around.
      b) Thermal paste change and a good cleaning
      c) A screen, i just do not bother and gift it as a desktop after fixing it

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Give caffeine pills and hammers to homeless people and have them recycle it for you

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't bother. If I have something recyclable I put it on the street. it is usually gone in a few hours or at most a day.

    otherwise I throw it in the recycle bin or garbage (whichever is closest).

    then it all get taken to sorting facilities where it sits around till it mysteriously catches fire.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not like that in my area. The same recycling depot you drop bottles off at also has some bins you dump old electronics in, and a platform out back where you can drop off any nasty old chemicals to be properly disposed of, rusty old propane tanks etc, all completely free, no paperwork even. It's pretty great, I feel slightly guilty every time I show up with a truck full of 50 year old pesticides and mystery unlabelled cans of toxic shit from a relative's garage and dump it on them, but that's what I pay taxes for and one of the few government uses of my money that's basically completely worth it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We've got a place like that. The only thing you can't do is throw out fluorescent tubes. They charge 25 cents a foot to dispose of those. I just smash those up inside a trash bag.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Enjoy your mercury-contaminated water table you cheap butthole.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          youre inhaling mercury gas when you do that

          Do people really not crush up fluorescent bulbs before throwing them away? Do you just let them stick out of your trashcan? If you do it outside the only health hazard is the broken glass, the mercury evaporates.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        youre inhaling mercury gas when you do that

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >crack glass
          >leave
          >come back
          >smash some more
          Literally that easy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            literally that easy to have a nice day

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >and make sure it's properly disposed of
    They literally resell the shit on ebay too

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    making people pay to recycle stuff "properly" with minimal ecological damage is a good way to make sure everyone just dumps it on the side of the road, or in a hole they dug like me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Its worth paying to have stuff "recycled"
      Only morons sully their own land by dumping garbage everywhere.
      Its way better to take that shit and ship it overseas to third world countries.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Only morons sully their own land by dumping garbage everywhere.

        You don't have to dump the garbage everywhere. Just dig yourself a nice big deep hole and burn all the crap in there. Only one spot that will eventually be buried. Zero problem.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I had a dead uninterruptible power supply. The Best Buy website said they take them for free so I took it there and they started giving me an attitude about it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      all you have to do is just leave it on the counter and walk out. what are they gonna do call the recycle police because you refused to pay to recycle something?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Recycling is a scam
    We found out our city was just shipping it all to shithole countries for money

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They don't even recycle it. They charge you $50 for them to turn around and throw it in a dumpster.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My town has mandatory recycling or else you have to pay per pound for trash bags, but they don't check, so I just recycle cardboard boxes and large plastic containers that are inconvenient to fit in a trash bag anyway. Except hazardous liquids, those go down the sink. I'm sure the wastewater facility can figure it out.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I used to take my used motor oil to shartmart because it was an e-z dump n go thing you could do at any time. Several years back they started instituting that you had to wait for a wagie (there never are any), sign a book, give them your ID, etc etc. Too much of a pain in my ass. I've just been putting the used bottles in kitchen trash bags and late at night every few months I drive to a nearby apartment complex with dumpster service that I know has no security cameras and dump it all in.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you can just go to an oil change place and they'll take it no questions asked. never had a problem doing that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Our landfill depot takes it as long as it's in a sealed container. I keep old milk jugs for that purpose.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            might be just case of biased algorithm but my boobtoob is suggesting me a lot of oilburner videos so there is high chance someone near you will be willing to take ot off your hand if you offer it for free on CL.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    best buy (in my area, at least) has free electronic drop offs. The only thing they charge for is older TVs, but everything else they take off my hands

    Last month my I walked in with my old broken PSU, set it on the desk, and just walked to the back to buy a new one. The wagies there aren't paid enough to care unless you outright deliver a bomb

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They probably sell the broken components through the geek squad desk.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And that's a good thing. Remember there are 3 arrows in recycle symbol and Reuse is superior
        to recycle.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Best buy in my area won't take any small appliances anymore, even ones that they sell. I don't know why since they all have circuit boards in them nowadays (classifying them as electronics).

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There are a lot of places that will do it for free, as they resell any good donations.
    For the rest of the stuff, they pay people minimum wage to take them apart, sell the copper and other shit, then toss the rest.

    Every US city seems to have someplace that does this. Find yours anon.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not at all /misc/ on you but if you took every one of these electronics your recycling, smash them to bits and fed them to baby eagles for the rest of your life you do less than a 100th of the damage a train shipping company just did the world to save a few bucks. Personal responsibility and recycling programs in general are a fricking joke. Not saying not to do it if it's convenient or offers you any kind of advantage but don't feel bad about fricking over Earth and the person at scale and said spend that effort on fighting the peoples who do it on a corporate scale

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >charge you $50 to recycle something worth $3 and is probably broken

    just go toss it in a mcdonalds dumpster. frick that shit. $50 to give them broken shit thats worth nothing. ill throw it in a ditch somewhere before I do that shit

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Interesting. They don't charge for electronics here, but you pay an environmental levy when you buy shit. I tried to get rid of gravel though one time and they wanted to charge me, even places that were selling gravel. I ended up adding it to an existing gravel pile I found on the side of the road.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Recycling centers are scams. They should be funded plenty by selling off the recycled materials to manufacturers who need them. All charging to recycle does is increase e-waste.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >They should be funded plenty by selling off the recycled materials to manufacturers who need them
      Nobody is buying.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'll take it. I have a bit of a hoarding problem you see and lots of space.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sometimes a community will hold a recycle anything day. I have a Xerox Docuprint N40 that is dead that I wanted to get rid of and no place would take it without charging. However the local school district will take anything without charge. They ask for donations but it's not required.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can't you just go to a scrap yard if you take off the plastic? Or just leave it outside and some scrapper will take it by the next day.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just dump old electronics at work and let other people deal with it. For example I had a broken personal heater. One of the days I go to the office I just threw it under the desk of someone who had been let go a while back. Easy as that.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah it's almost like recycling doesn't work and you shouldn't throw things away just because they're old. If you aren't ship-of-theseusing your ancient equipment to keep it running you're a wasteful motherfricker and you deserve the $50 moron tax.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Recycling is sorting trash for the government.

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