So I watched this YouTube video where a local YouTuber picks up an Apple Mac from the e-waste dumpster. I'm a tech enthusiast and love fixing up old computers and using them around the house.
Are e-waste recycling sites available for public access like the wreckers? Got links where I could check for sites around my area?
This. My local you just park next to it and offload stuff. You could very easily take stuff already donated.
If anyone cracks it just remind them about “reduce, reuse, recycle”; “reuse” is second in the list for a reason.
Do you have a link for a site I could check for closest e-waste centres?
Only applicable for vic
Check your local council website they usually have some info about where ewaste locations are in your LGA
I noticed a large pile of old computers, monitors and graphics cards outside an Officeworks last time I visited one.
inside too last time I went
Only some recycle, but good point.
Can one access Officeworks recycling to search for parts?
Officeworks uses TechCollect for their ewaste. Technically, once something is dropped off at a TechCollect site it becomes property of TechCollect
Source: work in local gov and we use tech collect.
Advice: make friends with the store manager or be sneaky
Other option would then be to stand outside and wait till someone drops of something, talk to them and get it 😂
I am trying to find someone that strips computers for gold content,i have over 200 motherboards and hundreds of leads plus lots more in canberra or goulburn txt 0415102899
I can take the leads but it would have to be a quantity to make the trip from Sydney and the processing (you have to cut all the connections off) worth my while.
I don't really do the boards as I have nowhere to store them to get enough quantity (there's only 1 buyer in Sydney and I've never used them) but I'll ask around.
PM me with a quantity of the cables. How many 240L wheelie bins would they fill?
PM me
wow stripping for gold sounds like a lot of work
Only have about a 45lt bin full.
It is hard to extract the gold.but having fun stripping down the computers
I am wondering about it too. Where do the resellers get all these used business computers? Surely businesses won't dump their retired computers at public collection site for public access.
I have seen a mountain of Dells dumped in the Bunnings electronic skip just yesterday.
You reckon we could go pick em up for free?
I picked up 2 WD 1tb 3.5" hdds. I don't know if they work, I assume I'll have to buy an enclosure or deck to know that
@Laziofogna: As per my original post, this one dude found a working 27" iMac. I'm like, why did anyone not tell me this. haha
Still trying to sell about 150 mother boards, 64 x ram cards, leads, d-link items, i have all so stripped about 15 computers so have heaps of spare parts, i cant itemize every thing,,it would be worth about $2500
Will sell $650 ono you realy need to see for yourself
All these from e-waste recyclers?
I've used them to drop things off. No one cares what you do (not at least the closest one to me), so you can have a bit of a rummage around and pick up what you want and then leave.