Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

There are several options,
!) put it on freecycle a Yahoo group
2) take to electronics stores, they are no longer suupposed to charge for used electronics ( government changed the charge system)
3) drop off at Scotts Industrial waste cleanup, on fortune Crescent on the south end off Gardiners north of Princess. The plant on the North side at the rear you simply drop it off in the rear. (they have a building on the south side as well but not for ewaste)

The Expert answers:

If you like artistic things then junk electronics, they can certainly be used for that purpose without knowing what each part does. I would suggest that you be carefull with batteries, especially lithium batteries because they may be charged and if they are shorted out they can get hot enough to explode.

As far as the wires on the boards is concerned, once a device is beyond repair it really doesn’t matter where the wires go but you can look up some of the ICs and figure out what they do. The keyboards usually have a chip that detects when a key is depressed. One terminal of a whole row or half a row of keys is connected to a digital output of a chip. This output delivers a low power signal that changes from 0 V to maybe 5 V (or vise versa) for a very short time. Columns of keys are connected to inputs of the same IC. When it sees one of these inputs go from 0 to 5V then it knows you pressed a key and it can then send a signal back to the computer to show it on the screen. This is called keyboard scanning because the IC sequences the output pins continuously so at any time when a key is pressed your selection is detected and the computer is signaled.

When I was growing up how things worked was a chalenge to me and that is probably why I tried to find out and ended learing alot about electrical and other engineering.

Good luck on this adventure.

The Expert answers:

I entered Laptops and Albany Oregon on Earth911 and it spit out dozens of sites within 25 miles.
Go to the site and enter in your zip code to find the closest recycling sites to you.

The Expert answers:

Given below point will help you.

1. Draft a budget, marketing plan and operations plan for your business. Design or buy forms that you need to keep tax records. Plan your schedule so that you have time every week to keep track of your income and expense and to review your marketing and operations plans.
2. Assess the market opportunity in your area. Make a list of several categories of electronic equipment users that you can contact about picking up their discarded electronics. In addition to individual consumers, consider businesses, churches, nonprofit organizations, healthcare facilities, public and private schools and day care facilities. Depending on your area, your city and local government and utility providers might also be great prospects.
3. Review the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on electronics recycling. Get information about state and local recycling regulations and services already in place. Consult your local government about any permits and licenses that your business may need. Check with your insurance company about the use of your personal vehicle in your business. Get additional coverage or a rider, if necessary.
4. Locate buyers for the electronic equipment that you plan to collect for your recycling business. Some larger cities have centralized recycling locations run by the government that accept recyclables from consumers and entrepreneurs. In other cases, you may need to find companies that pay for recycled electronics by consulting business directories and your local phone book.
5. Decide whether you will collect electronic equipment from both consumers and businesses. Initially it may be more efficient to collect unwanted electronic equipment from businesses. In most cities, businesses tend to be grouped close together due to zoning laws. You may spend less time collecting equipment in an office park than trying to contact individual consumers.
6. Find out the rates that master recyclers pay for used electronics in your area. This can range from a few cents per item to several dollars. You may need to identify more than one electronics reclaimer that will accept your recycled electronics. Some may specialize in audio or video equipment only and refuse items like portable telephones and computers.
7. Set up a fee structure that you can advertise to potential prospects for pickups. You can offer to pick up discarded electronics from prospects for a fee or at no cost to them. Some recyclers also elect to provide a small financial reward as an incentive for people to hold discards for them instead of a competitor. Estimate your potential profit and determine if splitting it with the equipment donor is practical.
8. Make a schedule for picking up equipment from customers that have agreed to give you their discarded electronics. Let your prospects know how frequently you expect to visit their area. Give prospects a way to contact you to schedule special pickups, if their normal equipment disposal schedule changes.

The Expert answers:

I don’t recycle them because there isn’t an electronic recycling center near me.

The Expert answers:

Yes, you can make money by recycling your electronics as now a days many online site provide platform which buys your E-waste and also pay a respectable amount for it.

The Expert answers:

No way. Electronics are an amalgamation of many different types of materials, some of which are actually worth “harvesting” and others are not.

Often times the way electronics “Recycling” works is by feeding circuit boards into a chipper, feeding the result into a furnace and them collecting the melted copper and gold. The waste is disposed of, so it’s not really recycling. This is what happens in asia and india with our old pc’s.

Refrigerators are a whole separate issue due to the complications caused by their compressors and chemicals used in them.

Recycling appliances and electronics is really difficult. The only effective method of recycling is encouraging the re-use of old items and extending the time before they end up in the landfill.

The Expert answers:

Your question suggests it doesn’t recycle at all, it does by sending the old stuff abroad by the container load.

How much could this be improved, I suspect quite a lot.

Http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/2aae1d283e9996cf85257944005c71d4?OpenDocument
http://www.urtrecycles.com/ProductsServices/ElectronicsRecycling.aspx

The Expert answers:

I worked ten years for a pair of fly-by-night but one-long-coming remanufacturing plants of chemical agents used in the making of various electronic components.

Dramatizing, mind you, sometimes the mob and the garbage man are the only ones doing what is right by accord of the larger picture of natural harmony.

I suppose you ought to pay taxes on your business success by pursuing a business license or by listening to better advice than I know to give you.

In recycling huge volumes of the slop that formerly was the stuff buried in pits in Mexico and was $400/55 gal drum to have buried, I was amazed that the chemistry of its undoing was a high I cannot begin to convey to you…and there is no question to me how the spiritual and the scientific are one origin that is like your best friend who works as three-headed dog at the gates of someplace where the door styx so please show some respect.

Understand all that goes into the brainery of electronic material manipulation and you’ll find much human genius that didn’t bother to clean up its mess after finishing its last project, and if it had , it would never have run into that big snag it has, as growing stigma, on its current project.

Using makeshift garbage equipment, a ten-man job of chemical production can be safely performed with the focus of one…in a weekend , not six months. But whom I? It is a cooperative effort of countless thousands that is