Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
old computer hardware: how to dispose of?
Hello everyone
Is there an eco way to dispose of a printer and a pc screen that don't work please? I'm sure they would work if fixed. The printer was a brilliant one, but no software supports it now.
Thanks Marian
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Take them to the Council recycling centre where they have a special section for electronic devices.
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Permalink Reply by Marian Leatherby on
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Thank you John, I appreciate it.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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There are sometimes workarounds for older hardware. eg I have a Nikon neg scanner that cost me a month's wages that doesnt work with my newer PC because there is no new driver that will work on a 64-bit machine. A bit of googling found forums which discuss this and ways to either fool your new PC into acting like the older ones, or that have reasonable priced software that can be made to work. Depends how much you love your old printer.
I confess I have just done a shortcut by buying a refurbished laptop running Win7 in 32bit which should work fine and turns out to be faster than my new PC....
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Hm. No doubt some technology whizard would be able to fix both these things, which is why one would rather not throw away. Way beyond my capabilities though.
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There's a - delightfully named - WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) bank on Endymion Road by the Finsbury Park gates
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O I can't possibly pass up the opportunity to use this facility.
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O no!
The WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) bank on Endymion Road is not for computers! They only want hairdryers, irons and things like that.
Back to the drawing board.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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How about:
or, as John said a few weeks back, the Western Road Recycling centre will apparently take it.
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Thanks very much Hugh. I'll check the weee thing out.
The recycling centre seem to take everything, once they threw my carefully separated half full paint tins into the general household waste!
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