Recycling Your Old Computer Equipment
Every computer geek has old monitors and computers they want to get rid of, but for some reason haven’t. Now, they are too old to sell. What to do? Well, thankfully, there are places that will recycle old computers and CRT monitors that never seem to die. The Computer Take Back Campaign has news and a complete list of companies willing to recycle computers and old monitors.
The “Recyling your Computer” PDF summarizes many of the larger computer manufacturers policies regarding computer recycling. Many companies have a free take back of your old computer and monitor with a new purchase over a certain amount, but most companies will also take back items if you are not making a new purchase for a fee.
Fees for most manufacturers are around, around $30 per item which includes the shipping price. Dell, however, stands out as the consumer friendly recycler, and will allow you to recycle up to 5 computers/ or components from any manufacturer for only $10 apiece. This is easily the cheapest alternative if you do not have free recycling in your area.
For more information:
The Computer Take Back Initiative
Computer Take Back PDF summarizing most company’s recycling programs
thanks for recognition of Dell’s efforts and for attention to the issue of finding convenient recycling resources for used computers for consumers. Wanted to be sure you knewsould know that Dell has committed to providing free recycling of anything Dell-branded, regardless of replacement purchase, and will launch that service in the US before the end of September. This service includes home pick-up of the used computer.
Comment by Bryantat Dell — September 20, 2006 @ 8:11 am[...] A while back, I gave praises to Dell’s computer recycling program. Well, they’ve just changed that program, and frankly, it stinks. They took an excellent program that could have been an example to other companies and changed it to as stringent as every other company out there. They’ve made it more diffcult for non businesses to recycle computer systems. The old program allowed you to recycle up to 5 computer items from any company for $10 apiece. It was a great program. They took everything and there was no purchase necessary. They no longer do that. Now, you can only recycle old Dell products with their program. They will also recycle other computer products, but they will only do that if you buy something from Dell first. The Dell recycling page on their web site also does not easily tell you how to recycle anything but a Dell product, though they do state that you can. In fact, it is not clear from the web site if it is possible to recycle anything BUT a Dell product. I will say it is nice to see that the recycling program is free, that is an improvement. But Dell also took two steps back when they decided to remove their program of taking up to 5 computer products for $10 apiece. [...]
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