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tmarshall said:Aaaaaaaaan dthennnn?
No and then....what is a hard drive made of?
That Google linky wasn't all that awesome.
Can I recycle these for their aluminum or not?
tmarshall said:Yes young grasshopper. But you see I have more than one.
So I should load up my trunk, go to the recycling center, and say "Yo! Diss shit werf anyting?"
I'll just call one tomorrow. Thought someone here had the answer.
tmarshall said:Yes young grasshopper. But you see I have more than one.
So I should load up my trunk, go to the recycling center, and say "Yo! Diss shit werf anyting?"
I'll just call one tomorrow. Thought someone here had the answer.
pigster said:Scrap aluminum is worth $0.50-$0.60 per pound. A drive weighs about a pound or so. So you're looking at $2-3. Hardly seems worth the work to strip them and drive them to a recycle center.
xonik said:How about you take the top lids off of all of them, and mount the drives on the wall to create a nerdy piece of art?
JackieChanIsGOD said:hehe yeah!
With 60, i'm sure you could do lots of wicked modding with the parts...
truffle00 said:Nah, I'd leave all the discs on my desk and call them my "Death Discs"...anytime anyone unwanted enters the room, they'd get a disc flung at them
Wiseguy2001 said:Take the magnets out!
Yes young grasshopper. But you see I have more than one.
So I should load up my trunk, go to the recycling center, and say "Yo! Diss shit werf anyting?"
I'll just call one tomorrow. Thought someone here had the answer.
indeed
as csims pointed out dismount the circuit board, pop the top, remove the rare earth magents (great fun watch your fingers exceptionally strong) and recycle the case which is very likely aluminum, though the platters may not be, if not they make classy coasters
I save up dismounted circuit boards till a cardboard box is full and then take them to the hard to recycle center for proper disposal, they are just loaded with lead, and truely toxic heavy metals, you really really dont want in a landfill where thay might leech into the ground water
(computers as a whole are getting somewhat better with more environmentally friendly materials but are still currently a serious hazard, older computers contain 5 to 8 pounds of lead as well as mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and a host of other heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
http://www.toxicdude.com/GetTheFacts/
http://www.toxicdude.com/Uploads/toxicsinside.pdf
Lead
Beryllium
Hexavalent Chromium
Mercury
Barium
Phosphor
Cadmium
Brominated Flame Retardants
This was maybe 15 or so years ago? But I helped someone scrap a totaled Toyota for a few hundred bucks (I think can't remember) with the towing costs included.
Yea it was a while ago, But that Toyota might have contained valuable scraps even if totalled. Mine was a pontiac lemans and mostly just steel with no valuables in it. I thought he wanted to give me 100 bucks.. so I extended my hand and he said you have to pay me first and I go doh! I had the idea of trying to dump it in the lake but didnt know if some serial number could be traced back to me.. I seen cars in the middle off the woods but this one was so heavy, I doubt even in its prime it would have gotten there. I know companies pay big bucks to recycle their old computers, they never get any money for them. But some like dell offers free pickup of old computers to dispose. I doubt they make any money on them either. better than it all ending up in land fills.