Recycle your old box
Maria asked me about places to recycle old computers.
By coincidence, i visited the Darebin recycling place the other day .. and it’s really close to central Reservoir. The Byteback scheme in Reservoir takes computer that are really broken and not worth fixing, (more about Byteback Victoria here)
If you think your computer might be useful to someone else, there are a few different schemes:
- GreenPC refurbish old computers for people without much cash,
- Business 2 community recyclers do something very similar (in Thomastown),
- Computer Bank Victoria has a page on how to recycle your computer .. they also refurbish old machines for people with health care cards.
Computer bank say they have recycled machines for as low as $15!
Reminds me of a learning resource i stumbled on a couple of years back, about the other end of the computer recycling journey, which i wrote about here: ‘how to buy a computer, for abe students’.
photo credit: Renan_Birck
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February 16th, 2009 in
how to, technology | tags: byteback, computerbank, darebin, greenpc, recycle, Reservoir
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