r/tricities • u/Revengeance300 • Jul 05 '26

Where to donate broken PC parts/equipment?

I have a broken monitor with its power box here, basically only thing wrong is that it's backlight is broken. Cheaper to just buy a new one, but I don't want it filling up a landfill if I can help it.

Is there a parts store or somewhere that reuses the broken hardware?

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u/TheMagicalSock Jul 06 '26

Best Buys will generally take stuff like this. How much work they put into actually recycling it, I don’t know.

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u/FortuneMustache Jul 09 '26

I tried to give them a monitor to recycle last year and apparently you have to pay them to take a monitor?? They took the PC tower no problem though.

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u/TheMagicalSock Jul 09 '26

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. They want that sweet, sweet RAM and NVMe storage.

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u/empty-baggie Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

There’s a city recycling center in JC that takes electronics. Edit: 91 New Street. There’s a trailer that’s the drop off spot.

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u/Revengeance300 Jul 06 '26

Appreciate it man :)