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Grex Agora41 Item 195: Computer Donations / Recycling
Entered by lk on Mon May 20 14:22:11 UTC 2002:

I have a bunch of old computer equipment (about 10 Pentium I class,
about 10 486) and printers to give away. Some were retired because
one part or another didn't work. Others may be fully functional.

Can anyone suggest needy organizations? Preferabley one with a truck
that can come and take this away?

Failing that, will the recycling center take them? Do they charge?
(I'm all for recycling, but IBM & HP charge $30-35 per item and I'm
a little hesitant to pay $1000 to recycle the lot.)

Does Friedman's take entire PCs? Monitors? Printers?

Please email LK@stratcom.com if interested or with suggestions.

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by scott on Mon May 20 14:52:03 2002:

The Ann Arbor recycle center takes computers and monitors, I think $5 each
to cover costs.  There are also some deals for cpu, monitor, and printer
together.

#2 of 7 by oval on Mon May 20 20:32:54 2002:

in NY there is a program that takes old computers and installs linux on them
so kids can learn it. (i forget the name .. i'll post it when i find out)

#3 of 7 by utv on Mon May 20 21:24:19 2002:

can i download it?

#4 of 7 by keesan on Mon May 20 23:35:03 2002:

If you want to deliver all of the computers we can recycle the 486s for you
(Friedmans' pays 10 cents/pound for the boards and will take the power
supplies and floppy drives off our hands for free) and find homes for the
pentiums (and recycle our 10-20 486s instead).  We do not have access to a
motor vehicle.  SVGA monitors we can probably take, anything older we can put
out at the curb one every few weeks and they go away.  Fuzzy monitors ditto.
I have taken apart maybe 100 computers already while at Kiwanis volunteering.
Kiwanis is managing to sell Pentium 266 but not a whole lot of anything older.
Where do you live, possibly we can borrow the neighbor's car briefly.
We may be able to foist some of the printers off on Kiwanis.  They are easily
recycled if you take them apart into metal and plastic components.
We may be able to upgrade older Pentiums to 100 or 133 MHz and replace the
486s that we gave some of our friends.  We are still using our own 486s.

The metal cases can be put, gradually, into the recycling bins if you remove
all the innards and then fold them (jump hard on them).  Maybe I should check
with Jim before making any promises?  Email us.  He wanted some excuse to go
out of the 486 business and we were about to start on the ones that only took
8M RAM and could not have the boards replaced.....  After we finished the bike
collection (five people want bikes, we have the parts).

#5 of 7 by bhelliom on Tue May 21 17:25:13 2002:

You could try some of the live-in facilities for young people, like 
Girls' Town.  Since they are non-profits that get regularly skimped on 
by the state places like those are always in need of computers for 
their kids.  Girl's town is a place for young girls 13-18 that have 
lived in abusive homes and can no longer live with their families.  
Maybe some place such as this would be a good bet.

#6 of 7 by happyboy on Tue May 21 17:38:22 2002:

good suggestion!

#7 of 7 by tpryan on Wed May 22 04:33:04 2002:

        let me know if I can be of transportation help.

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