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Owen Densmore

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Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers
and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and
don't know how to dispose of them.

-- Owen

Steve Smith

Old Computers and Peripherals

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers
> and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and
> don't know how to dispose of them.
>

Put them in the boxes your new(est) computers came in, seal them well
with packing tape, leave them in your car unlocked at the mall, someone
else will magically dispose of them for you.

I understand a variation of this was used often during the NY City
sanitation workers strike a couple of decades ago. As always, it
doesn't really solve the problem, it just pushes it off to someone much
less likely than you to be responsible about it. Kinda like much of
our foreign policy.

Or you could do what I do, let it build up in your closet or shed until
you can't stand it anymore, find a way to dispose of it and 10 years
later kick yourself for letting it go! Like that Apple Lisa, Classic
Color, NeXT, NeXT Color, etc... that I have let go of over the years!

There are projects for recycling computers/peripherals to the third
world, I have a nephew who spent years helping make our old junk work
for schools in Africa... I'll see if I can find anything more about
that... I think they asked a "donation" with each "donation", enough
cash to defray the costs of transport, etc... it might have been as
little as $20/computer/system. Strange economies we construct, eh?

Good luck...

Michael Agar

Old Computers and Peripherals

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

http://www.nmrecycle.org/pdf/List_NM_E-Recyclers.pdf

Mike

On Jan 26, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers
> and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and
> don't know how to dispose of them.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
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Steve Smith

Old Computers and Peripherals

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers
> and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and
> don't know how to dispose of them.
>
>

I know this doesn't help in the immediate (since we don't live in the
Bay Area) but it does give hope that somewhere it is working out.
http://www.crc.org/

I don't know if we have Staples in SF or ABQ... but looks like they are
trying to "help" to some degree.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18781204/

- Steve

Belinda Wong-Swanson

Old Computers and Peripherals

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

Hi Owen,

Teri at Qforma gets a Tech Recycling Service box at Office Depot from
time to time for us to fill it up with our electronic junk. She then
takes it back to Office Depot for disposal.

The Office Depot Tech Recycling Service flyer says that the items
"will be crushed and raw materials extracted using a shredding
process. All recycling will occur in the USA".

Belinda

On Jan 26, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

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Irene Lee

Old Computers and Peripherals

Try NM Technet / Reruns in ABQ - http://www.reruns.nm.org/ they recycle
computers for schools.
I-25 -> West on Montano -> South on Edith

http://www.nm.org/20000-pcs.html

--Irene

On Jan 26, 2008 1:13 PM, Belinda Wong-Swanson <bws at innov8llc.com> wrote:

> Hi Owen,
> Teri at Qforma gets a Tech Recycling Service box at Office Depot from time
> to time for us to fill it up with our electronic junk. She then takes it
> back to Office Depot for disposal.
>
> The Office Depot Tech Recycling Service flyer says that the items "will be
> crushed and raw materials extracted using a shredding process. All recycling
> will occur in the USA".
>
> Belinda
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
> Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers
> and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and
> don't know how to dispose of them.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> Belinda Wong-Swanson
> bwongswanson at qforma.com
>
> ********
> Qforma
> Tel: (505) 989-3558
> Cell: (505) 660-7948
>
> Innovate - Navigate - Surpass
>
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>
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Tom Johnson

Old Computers and Peripherals

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

Owen:

I'm taking a Win2000 PC, keyboard and printer down to a school in Mexico in
a couple of weeks, but I'm looking for an appropriate monitor that can also
be donated. Might you, or any of the gang, have such?

-Tom Johnson

On Jan 26, 2008 12:00 PM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

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