Thread: e -Waste

Originally Posted by Taosaur

If it has a Compaq-compatible cd-drive that works, I'll take that part My old laptop has no OS and the cd drive is junk, so I can't load one on.

If it has a USB drive some BIOSes can be set to boot from a thumb drive. You could put Linux on it that way.

I have given The DOHWP (Disposal of hazardous waste products) your contact info so that you can take all of their junk -or pieces parts to use.

The only thing that works well is the keyboard. It is seven years old and is not compatible to much -believe me, I've tried.

Their is a recent article in THE National Geographic that would just blow your mind. It is about the computer waste that we ship to foreign countries.
unbelievable.

See if I can find a link.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

If it has a USB drive some BIOSes can be set to boot from a thumb drive. You could put Linux on it that way.

Ya, it can't do that. It has USB 2.0 ports, but the hubs are not full 2.0 speed, and it will only boot from multibay or hard disk. It's reconditioned, and probably originally from '01-'03

HIGH-TECH TRASH

I found the article. I can't find the picures. The pictures are just, hard to believe.

I remember hearing about e-waste over 10 years ago when I lived in Brazil. The news channel there showed videos of all the VCRs and TVs that were being thrown out here in the US. It really shocked me back then, especially seeing all those VCRs being thrown out because I didn't have one and my dad didn't want to buy one either.

There is a Photo Gallery on the bottom left side of that link you posted. I'm not sure if those are the pictures you were talking about, but they are pretty shocking.

Yaa, that's insane. Those pictures.

Soon we will supposedly HAVE to swith over to HD television. If you want TV. Much like you saw with the VCRs and old Tape recorders. They are obsolete.
Computers...sheesh, they are outdated a day after you buy them.

Originally Posted by Howie

Soon we will supposedly HAVE to swith over to HD television. If you want TV. Much like you saw with the VCRs and old Tape recorders. They are obsolete.
Computers...sheesh, they are outdated a day after you buy them.

Yeah, and in 2009, the signal for the TVs here in the US will be switched to digital only. Any older TV that uses the "rabbit ears" antenna won't work anymore. So that's more e-waste...

Now, as far as computers go. Anytime I upgrade mine, I save the older parts because you can always do something with spare computer parts... build a new system, give it to someone else who needs it, etc. What ends up happening though, is that I never use them (why go to the hassle to build a new slower system when mine is working better) and I eventually throw the parts away anyway.

Now, my best solution for taking care of CRT monitors is to get a baseball bat and beat the living crap out of it. I've done it twice before. Ahhh... it's such a great therapy.

In some U.S. cities, you'll find NGOs that will take old computer parts off your hands. I forget what the one where I used to live was called...I think FreeGeek or something like that.

One of the more sinister U.S. solutions to e-waste is to "donate" used and reconditioned electronics to China and India, where they crap out six months later and become China's and India's problem.

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

Now, my best solution for taking care of CRT monitors is to get a baseball bat and beat the living crap out of it. I've done it twice before. Ahhh... it's such a great therapy.

Careful, those things have enormous capacitors in them which hold about several thousand volts.