How to recycle a pc?

[VoyexTech]

What does best buy do with recycled pc/printers. Asking this for an essay

[VoyexTech]

How do I recycle a pc? step by step please. 

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, VoyexTech said:

How do i rrecycle a pc l? step by step please. 

2 ways. Can scrap the parts for metal, and reuse said metal, or reuse the parts in the pcs. Both ways work.

[lopj245]

Are the parts salvageable? If not look around in your area, most PC shops recycle them. I wouldn't give them any HDD's though 

[Badazzz]

If the parts work, sell them on eBay. If they don't, sort out the metals and take them somewhere where you can recycle metal.

[VoyexTech]

1 minute ago, lopj245 said:

Are the parts salvageable? If not look around in your area, most PC shops recycle them. I wouldn't give them any HDD's though 

Ok it is running windows 95 do so I don't care about hardware

[VoyexTech]

2 minutes ago, Badazzz said:

If the parts work, sell them on eBay. If they don't, sort out the metals and take them somewhere where you can recycle metal.

Anything else I need to do?

[Badazzz]

2 minutes ago, VoyexTech said:

Anything else I need to do?

Profit.

[DragonTamer1]

Take the hard drive and wipe it very thoroughly to get any personal data off of it. The best option is to remove the hard drive and physically destroy the disks. You can open it up and pull them out, cut them up with a saw or throw them into a bonfire (bonfire will very thoroughly destroy the disks). You can run a drill press through the drive so you don't actually need to open it up. If you live in 'Murica you can also shoot the hard drive to death.

 

Really any physical damage to the disks inside will destroy it (beyond the extent of simply scratching it with something).

[Random_guy_on_the_internet]

15 hours ago, VoyexTech said:

Ok it is running windows 95 do so I don't care about hardware

SELL,  DON'T DESTROY. 

[W-L]

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As to answer the question most times electronic waste at retail stores are usually taken by e-waste facilities to recycle the valuable precious metals and useful material that can be reused in manufacturing. 

[Random_guy_on_the_internet]

4 hours ago, W-L said:

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As to answer the question most times electronic waste at retail stores are usually taken by e-waste facilities to recycle the valuable precious metals and useful material that can be reused in manufacturing. 

DON'T DESTROY.

[Loadage]

To answer your first question on recycling e-waste depends on the country (and state to state/ province to province) you live in. (The information here may not apply to your location)
The collector (in this case Bestbuy) will send the waste to a facility which will break down the product separating the product from each other:

(main boards into one bin, metals casing and heat sinks into another, wires, processors and ram (for the gold), hard drives for destruction, and other stuff for further sorting and disposal)

After the product has been sorted they process it (extracting any valuable metals off the product) and removing any hazardous products like mercury.

An example of how to recover gold off the Ram and CPU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXd85YfcvY

they send the stuff they can't process to other facilities like batteries and crt monitors. 


Other info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_recycling
http://ontarioelectronicstewardship.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQp0fCQ-74

[VoyexTech]

On 2/11/2016 at 1:59 PM, x2120 said:

To answer your first question on recycling e-waste depends on the country (and state to state/ province to province) you live in. (The information here may not apply to your location)
The collector (in this case Bestbuy) will send the waste to a facility which will break down the product separating the product from each other:

(main boards into one bin, metals casing and heat sinks into another, wires, processors and ram (for the gold), hard drives for destruction, and other stuff for further sorting and disposal)

After the product has been sorted they process it (extracting any valuable metals off the product) and removing any hazardous products like mercury.

An example of how to recover gold off the Ram and CPU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXd85YfcvY

they send the stuff they can't process to other facilities like batteries and crt monitors. 


Other info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_recycling
http://ontarioelectronicstewardship.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQp0fCQ-74

Thank you so much!

[VoyexTech]

On 2/11/2016 at 11:31 AM, Random_guy_on_the_internet said:

DON'T DESTROY.

I know that but that you