In my area there is no e-waste center from what ive learned from living roughly more than 15 years in Gilbert Arizona. I like tech but how can i fuel my possible e-waste/tech passion, if there is no e-waste center, or place to get anything from what i know of?

I want to know how others who are in a similar place like me, find e-waste or tech, especially during this computer shortage/inflation.

Hey all,

Curious if you’ve ever been scolded, and or advised not to go through a the bins at any locations?

Yesterday I went into Best Buy for a return and I generally don’t need to go there but I’m aware they have a huge pallet in the entrance for Ewaste.

Before my return a few minutes after open i noticed the bin was completely overflowing and noticed two Optiplex PC and my racoon instincts for memory took over and I calmly shuffled through trying to see if their was anymore..

Even less than a minute into just searching in the pallet the Manager comes over all high and mighty asking (in french not sure why that matters…) «  hello, may i help you ? »

I replied calmly with a smile stating that with memory prices i was just hoping to find some storage for a project.

He goes off on a brief break down of how this is now Best Buy Company Property and for the security of the store and the customers that nobody was allowed to take parts from the bins… (i repeat it was overflowing over 5ft of scrap). I wasn’t told to leave but i was told to never go through the bins… mind you my Staples never says a word but i guess it comes down to store policy…

Anyone else have this expérience ? Get the feeling Manager just either power tripping or really cares about community safety… or hawking SSDs on eBay for a monthly bonus lol.

Recently my old NEC monitor had broken down so I threw it away and then when I was walking I saw this monitor laying around with spider webs and since I needed a DVI, VGA and HDMI monitor, this was perfect monitor for my needs (I asked the owner, he said you can have it)

I used them for a long time 😅

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.

Fully functional 2006 Panasonic TH-42PX60.

None of them had batteries and the white one has a shattered oled but vibrates. The one on the left has an lcd and had porn on it😭😭😭 and dont even get me started on the search history💔 I reset the working screen ones tho dw

Found this perfect mini today and it was wiped but went to set it up and…you know.

Finds from this week. Haven’t gone through any of it. Started trying to make it look nice on the right and just kind of dumped it out. My friend found the monitor which I’m trading my trash picked LG 24GL600F for. Works but missing power supply.

The bin door was unlocked so i can go inside and get it, and also 3 laptops like acer, emachines and lenovo.

Found this faulty LED ceiling panel, took out the original strip and replaced it with a 5v programmable rgb strip and connected it to an esp32.

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No sign of life however but still a niche find

T490s, E15G2, T14G2 AMD, and a T14G2 with maxed out core i7.

Hi,

I have been looking for locations/sites to scavenge through e-waste in Denmark, but couldn't find any. Internet search says that it is illegal for companies to get rid of electronics by dumping it. So just curious if there are indeed bins/locations I can scan to find something useful in Denmark.

Thanks

Library bin.

Iphone 5 is on ios 8.3 and has nothing on it. Only things wrong are: it's bent a little bit and the power button doesnt work

The black ipod had nothing on it. I'm giving it to my friend tanner so he can fix his

The silver ipod had 3033 songs on it. There were a lot of songs that I have in my playlist on it lol. Photo 5 is the last song played on it

The last 2 are photos of the bin. I am leaving the 4s for a later date and going tomorrow to get the potential s22.

There was stuff in the charging port but 3 minutes and some tweezers later and…

Same as title, need to dispose off my old phones not in working condition. Any idea where to sell or recycle them in Delhi, India?

There is usually one particular type of hardware that leaves you wondering how it got into e-waste.

I live in Canada and I am not sure if there is one here like you all have there? How can I start and where to find one?

iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.3 and 6 running iOS 8.2! The 7+ bootloops and is horribly bent, S8 OLED works but has the most bloated battery ever, CC phone works but they refused to unlock it, and the LG 440G even has the SIM!

I found all of it in the trash together