Any Philly peeps know where to do electronics recycling?

Undertoad · 09-21-2009, 01:39 PM

My computer graveyard now consists of about six obsolete systems, two massive CRT monitors and considerable parts and pieces. I would like to shitcan the whole lot.

Flint · 09-21-2009, 01:42 PM

No, dude, build a robot.

glatt · 09-21-2009, 01:49 PM

Yeah, at least pull out the motors that operate the drives and drive trays and save them in a coffee can in the basement. Robot city!

Flint · 09-21-2009, 01:54 PM

Be inspired by glatt's example--save those old parts and make neat stuff out of them!

jinx · 09-21-2009, 02:07 PM

We take all our stuff like that to a place on RT 10 just north of Honeybrook. They take everything, sort it, and resell/recycle it. They even pay you for some stuff.

lumberjim · 09-21-2009, 02:08 PM

There's a place between Morgantown and Honeybrook on rte 10.....at the top of the hill....they take anything metal or plastic. I got rid of 3 window units, my R2D2, and a swingset so far.

jinx · 09-21-2009, 02:08 PM

Oh, hey Jim...

lumberjim · 09-21-2009, 02:17 PM

oh ...hi, hunny.

Flint · 09-21-2009, 02:33 PM

Oh look, here are two non-crazies with their practical advice.

By the way, while we're on the subject, what the hell am I supposed to do with dead batteries?

lumberjim · 09-21-2009, 02:37 PM

car batteries?

Flint · 09-21-2009, 02:39 PM

No I swap my car battery cores at the auto parts store for a discount on the new battery...they apparently do something with them.

What I don't know what to do with are all these batteries from all these kid's toys/stuff that I accumulate so many of.

glatt · 09-21-2009, 02:44 PM

Our elementary school recycles them. The "Green committee" there organizes it just to keep them out of the landfill and to teach the kids to care about the planet. So we send them to school with the kids. I honestly used to just throw them in the trash to go in the landfill, so I'm happy about this program.

Flint · 09-21-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I honestly used to just throw them in the trash to go in the landfill...

Every time: I walk up, look at the trash can, look at the recycling bin, say out loud "What the hell am I supposed to do with these?" then shrug and throw them in the trash. I can't believe I've lived more than thirty years, right through the Captain Planet era, and never once has anyone, that I'm aware of, ever addressed the issue of these very toxic-seeming objects that we produce so many of.

monster · 09-21-2009, 03:01 PM

They get picked up by our regular trash/recycling peeps, we just have to place them separately in a clear bag. Although now they've started insiting we tape the top and bottom of each to prevent fires starting on the garbage truck or something.....

classicman · 09-21-2009, 03:18 PM

Many places in DE take them - The Shop Rite on 202 about 2 miles over the state line takes them. Other than that.... try to freecycle them. One mans trash is another's treasure... and all that.

09-21-2009, 01:39 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Any Philly peeps know where to do electronics recycling? My computer graveyard now consists of about six obsolete systems, two massive CRT monitors and considerable parts and pieces. I would like to shitcan the whole lot.

09-21-2009, 01:42 PM	#2
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	No, dude, build a robot. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-21-2009, 01:54 PM	#4
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Be inspired by glatt's example--save those old parts and make neat stuff out of them! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-21-2009, 02:07 PM	#5
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	We take all our stuff like that to a place on RT 10 just north of Honeybrook. They take everything, sort it, and resell/recycle it. They even pay you for some stuff. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

09-21-2009, 02:08 PM	#6
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	There's a place between Morgantown and Honeybrook on rte 10.....at the top of the hill....they take anything metal or plastic. I got rid of 3 window units, my R2D2, and a swingset so far. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

09-21-2009, 01:49 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah, at least pull out the motors that operate the drives and drive trays and save them in a coffee can in the basement. Robot city!

09-21-2009, 02:08 PM	#7
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Oh, hey Jim... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

09-21-2009, 02:17 PM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	oh ...hi, hunny. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

09-21-2009, 02:33 PM	#9
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Oh look, here are two non-crazies with their practical advice. By the way, while we're on the subject, what the hell am I supposed to do with dead batteries? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-21-2009, 02:37 PM	#10
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	car batteries? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

09-21-2009, 02:39 PM	#11
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	No I swap my car battery cores at the auto parts store for a discount on the new battery...they apparently do something with them. What I don't know what to do with are all these batteries from all these kid's toys/stuff that I accumulate so many of. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-21-2009, 02:44 PM	#12
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Our elementary school recycles them. The "Green committee" there organizes it just to keep them out of the landfill and to teach the kids to care about the planet. So we send them to school with the kids. I honestly used to just throw them in the trash to go in the landfill, so I'm happy about this program.

09-21-2009, 03:01 PM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	They get picked up by our regular trash/recycling peeps, we just have to place them separately in a clear bag. Although now they've started insiting we tape the top and bottom of each to prevent fires starting on the garbage truck or something..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-21-2009, 03:18 PM	#15
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Many places in DE take them - The Shop Rite on 202 about 2 miles over the state line takes them. Other than that.... try to freecycle them. One mans trash is another's treasure... and all that. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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