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Please move if I'm not in the right category. I have an old broken hard drive and a broken laptop screen that I have no idea what to do with. I'd hate to throw them away and I've looked around my area and I haven't seen anything about recycling them. I don't have any actual computer stores near me and Best Buy only recycles cords and other small things like that that I am aware of. Any help is appreciated.

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you can pull the insides out of the HDD and use the shell as a nice shelf for a water pump/res combo

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18 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

You can use the HDD as a magnetic screw holder

I've done that before.

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23 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

You can use the HDD as a magnetic screw holder

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That's a neat idea about reusing a hard drive for screw holder etc. I can't imagine what I'd reuse the old cracked screen for unless if I turned it into some light project

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Look for the electronics recycling in your area. if working bring them to free geek.

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I did find a place a town over that does actually recycle a cracked laptop screen for a small fee. Being in a college town, I would've thought that there would be someplace in town that could recycle them. Guess not though. The nearest Free Geek to me would be in Chicago which sucks because I've been wanting to check them out if I ever got the chance.

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