E Waste

[the_gremlinn]

What do you do with old hardware and cables? haven't thrown any of my old stuff away, but I have 3 or 4 European cables that came with a some monitors, and a bag of ddr3 ram. Its literally like 20 sticks. I don't have space to keep it, but I don't to just toss them

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[filpo]

1 minute ago, the_gremlinn said:

What do you do with old hardware and cables? haven't thrown any old stuff away, but I have 3 or 4 European cables, and a bag of ddr3 ram. Its literally like 20 sticks. I don't have space to keep it, but I dont to just toss themIMG_0593.HEIC

Sell them? Only way to keep it going 

Sell the sticks on ebay as well as the cables

[Needfuldoer]

Someone on eBay might want the RAM.

 

As for the cables, usually I throw them in a box in the corner until I've accumulated enough to make it worth bringing to a scrapyard for a few extra bucks. They're trash. Nobody's going to buy European power cables from you. You can bring them to a store that accepts ewaste like Best Buy or Staples if you really want, but aside from chopping the European connectors off and buying North American replacement plugs for them I don't think there's anything worthwhile to do with them.

[cooky560]

I usually sell any old hardware that isn't going to become part of a retro build, and cables I keep, you never know when you will need them! Very little is thrown away

[Budget DIY]

I usually keep the plugs, if we're talking about the same stuffs. My angle grinder and some other tools have a fancy thick power cable, coming from a PSU/PC.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Find a way to reuse them. Give them away to a local recycling charity (As in one that builds PCs and such).  Friends.  Post them online for free.

 

Later this summer I'm going to 'retire' an Asus X79 mobo, with a 12 core E5 Xeon, and a bunch of RAM, and I'm literally just going to post it on this forum, the first person willing to pay shipping from Toronto can have it otherwise for free.

[the_gremlinn]

Thanks everybody.  I am going to list ram and try to sell it. and donate everything else