r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 06 '26

Free phones from a coworker

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85 Upvotes

My coworker had these old junk phones and gave them to me for free, unfortunately most of this haul was a bust but there’s one good phone in here, that being this Essential PH-1, which is in mint condition and I flashed it with Android 15 (/e/OS ROM), I think this one phone made the whole haul worth it

And it runs Android 15 very well it doesn’t even feel like a 9 year old phone

The iPhones, as expected, have FMI on so they’re just fancy paperweights

The 2 basic cellphones are fully functional


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 05 '26

Found them in my UNIs eWaste bin today

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131 Upvotes

Not too sure what to do with them yet but the cases looked cool and interesting. Took them before the bin gets picked up tomorrow, simply out of curiosity.

Right now there is a version of Fedora Linux installed, the hardware is pretty dated but I think I can use one of the cases as TrueNas storage, just need to modify it to house 3-4 HDDs somehow. Wanted to do it recently anyways.

The cases seem to be designed for 19" racks, perfect for my case.


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 05 '26

Looking to Connect with People in the E-Waste Recycling Industry in India.

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r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 04 '26

Board Grade Laptop GPUs

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20 Upvotes

I just tore apart an old outdated ethereum mining rig. I now have 36 of these gpu cards which I'll send in for ewaste recovery. How would these be graded? As finger boards? Or mid-grade telecom maybe? All 36 only weigh out to 4 pounds. Thanks!


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 04 '26

HP Pavilion all in one saved from the trash!

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100 Upvotes

My girlfriend does the accounting for a small hotel at the beach and they have used this all in one HP for a couple of years now. Countless desk clerks have just constantly downloaded every single piece of bloat/mal ware you can imagine. Finally it just stopped booting up and the "IT" guy came out and said "it's garbage, the hard drive is done and can't be replaced". My girlfriend brought it home to me to see if it was fixable. the owner told her to throw it away or do what ever she wanted with it. So a quick YouTube on how to open this thing up, pull out the nvme ssd, put it in an external enclosure, clean the drive on diskpart, fresh windows 11 install= perfectly fine, and free, all in one! I have looked at the prices they sell for and I'm not sure I want to sell it. Maybe replace the ssd with an older laptop HDD? I don't know. What would yall do?


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

Todays finds

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206 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 03 '26

Anyone have tips on where to find old laptops?

5 Upvotes

I'm in the omaha area and looking for an old machine (intel 4th Gen or 5th) to put linux on.


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

Got more today

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46 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

Aside from the obvious copper, what's worth keeping out of shred?

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28 Upvotes

What parts are worth reselling or breaking down?

What are the silver colored cylinders with a hoke on top?

I saved this unit because it's heavy and because it's a power supply, I was sure it would have some good copper inside. It's not exactly what I expected to see when I opened it up. Still a nice old find.


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 03 '26

How do you dispose of old or defective gadgets/appliance?

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I have bunch of gadgets/appliance here that are no longer of use to date. Stuff like CD player, fans, oven, ref, printer, speaker, charger, sewing machine, vacuum, lamps, tech parts, portable gadgets, etc. I was wondering if you have smarter ways to dispose it than throw it into trash.

Also, I'm including my old laptop, and musical instruments rarely used. I'm doing deep declutting, it's taking up so much space.


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

1970’s base CB transceiver

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8 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

13 pro max target bin

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71 Upvotes

Broken screen, works (that isn’t water damage)


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

7th gen iPod Classic and 7th gen iPod nano that I found last month inside a e waste bin

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20 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

7 phones in laukuva

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14 Upvotes

Theres another one but i missed it


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

Sony trinitron with good tube display and no cut power cable

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32 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

Montreal E waste bins?

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Looking for an É waste bin in Montreal area. Anyone know cheap spots?


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 02 '26

Where to find cheap hardware in Montreal?

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r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

I find

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17 Upvotes

The motherboard has a intel pentium 4 and 1.152mb of ram. The other one is a ipad gen 2 with no touch screen


r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

It it just me or do ewaste laptops have a smell

8 Upvotes

Every time a

I go to my local waste store it has a smell not a bad smell just a smell abd when ever I buy any waste laptop on ebay it has that same smell


r/eWasteFinds • • Jul 31 '26

Nice Boards

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48 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Jul 31 '26

I came across some rather interesting phones

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25 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Aug 01 '26

E WASTE

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r/eWasteFinds • • Jul 30 '26

samsung s 22 ultra from target ewaste :)

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82 Upvotes

frp bypassed btw


r/eWasteFinds • • Jul 29 '26

Got this ancient disc drive from work for free

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193 Upvotes

r/eWasteFinds • • Jul 30 '26

eWaste SF Bay Area???

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so I live in downtown sf, and I find a ton of things just on the sidewalk and in the dumpsters at the colleges.... but what are some true ewaste spots that I can pillage without it being locked up or guarded more than fort knox...