Recycling Computer Equipment

As technology advances, our obsolete technology piles up in basements, attics, and landfills. There are a number of organizations that accept old computer equipment for reuse in schools or in poorer nations, or reclaim elements such as gold, silver, and copper from printed circuit boards.

Please read my article from Productivity Reports, discussing this issue.

Links from the article:

  • Enabling Support Foundation (Roxbury, MA)
        www.enabling.org

  • South End Technology Center (Boston, MA)
        www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv

  • PEP Computer Recycling
        www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html

  • World Computer Exchange (Hull, MA)
        www.worldcomputerexchange.org

  • Conigliaro Industries (Framingham, MA)
        www.conigliaro.com/recycling/plastics.cfm

    • Additional recycling information on the web:

  • United Recycling Industries
        Electronic Take-Back Program

  • Directory of Recycling and Re-use Programs
        www.eiae.org

  • Share the Technology Computer Recycling Project
        www.sharetechnology.org

  • Dell Recycling
        www.dell.com/recycling

  • National Cristina Foundation
        www.cristina.org

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