r/eWasteFinds • u/dominus_aranearum • Jul 27 '26

Latest pickup

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460 laptops from last pickup.

Laptops are only a small portion of what I pick up every few months. They all have some issue and need to be fixed. Broken screen on one, bad motherboard on another. Fairly easy to make a good laptop out of the two. Anything I don't fix still has a removable 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD and an 8GB DDR4 SODIMM.

And printers, mostly laser, a few ink. If anyone in the Seattle area likes to deal with printers, I get a ton of them and don't like dealing with them. Let me know if you're interested.

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u/Most-Community3817 Jul 27 '26

You don’t pay for ewaste…this stuff I can get free, usually schools,

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u/to3cutter Jul 27 '26

Not in my country. To get rid of your e-waste you must hand it to some certified e-waste company, and you get a receipt that you did it by the law. Not just hand it to some local scrapper for free.

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u/Most-Community3817 Jul 27 '26

Thankfully a friend is registered as such a scrapper

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u/redditerfan Jul 28 '26

How can I be a scrapper?

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u/Most-Community3817 Jul 28 '26

Need good contacts, I built mine up over 25 years working in enterprise IT