Recycling Electronics
Recycling Electronics
What is it with boys and electronic toys? I’ll never understand.
This week, one of my sons decided to clean the clutter out of his bedroom. Part of what he tossed was this pile of electronics. Old and dusty – I am so glad that he is letting go of this stuff. I don’t even know what some of it is.
As he was growing up, he loved electronics, taking things apart and seeing how they worked. But this stuff has not been touched in years. You can tell by the dust.
Are you ready for a blast from the past? It’s a Macintosh Powerbook 165 – a dinosaur! It is time for this to go.
Since he was willing to let them go (as long as they were recycled) we moved these items to the garage to join some old computer parts.
Now it’s time to recycle – No problem! It is Electronic Sunday in my county this weekend. Do you have a program like this in your area? If not, the Best Buys stores in my area accept items for recycling. Maybe this is available in your area too.
It’s getting easier to be “green” all the time. You can participate in the movement the next time you declutter too.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
There is no point allowing electronic equipment to gather dust only to eventually be disposed of. The sooner you pass the equipment on to a recycler the better (as equipment gets older it gets incrementally harder to find a someone that wants to use it).
The only exception being collectors items – in this case it’s better to keep it in the original wrapper 🙂