The principle of "biomimicry" suggests that we learn from Nature. Nature is very good at reusing things. Where there are nutrients, some player figures a way to access those nutrients, use them, and discard what is not needed. When living things die, the nutrients that have been captured in their bodies are returned to the Natural world to be recycled and reused.
Applied to high-tech gear, you want to recycle that gear. You want to send your used PCs, mobile phones, and other such electronic gadgetry somehow back into Nature. That does not mean throwing it into the general waste stream where it will end up in a landfill.
Instead, you want to recycle it. How? Here is one vendor's solution. OFFICE DEPOT sells boxes for $5, $10, and $15 that you fill with used electronics and return to an Office Depot Store. They ship the boxes to a recycler, who crushes the products to extract useful glass, plastic, copper, and aluminum.
URL:http://www.officedepot.com/promo.do?file=/promo/pages/0928_recycling.jsp
Of course, there are other places you can go as well. A search for Computer Recycling through Google or Bing will yield many local businesses that can help you do the right thing with your used high-tech gear.
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