Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]--- On Fri, 6/10/11, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > I suspect our local recycling yard > would buy a HD for a few pennies, like > any other metal scrap. Probably not, actually; several of the components in computer components are classed as hazmat substances. The scrapyards could get a lot of grief that way, so they don't take them at all, usually. (Breaking apart and separating the various recyclables is far more expensive here than it is in places where nobody cares much if peasants die for no good reason.) (Most of the "recycle your computer" deals you see online and advertised involve you paying to ship your computer somewhere else AND paying them a fee to dispose of it properly.) R. Clayton McKee PhotoJournalist from somewhere just south of somewhere else...